In our continuing series on medicine in unusual circumstances, Talha Burki takes the temperature of health care in polar ...

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust says the site is facing a number of issues, due to weather, the base’s age, and climate ...

The 2025-26 team will be based at Goudier Island for the next few months and will spend Christmas on the football-pitch-sized ...

A new team is heading to Port Lockroy in Antarctica to protect and run the base, and to keep an eye on its colony of penguins.

A team of Bouygues, Stantec and Mott Macdonald will modernise Australia’s Davis Research Station in east Antarctica.

Scientists have detected the DNA of an invasive marine species in Arctic Canada suggesting the region’s waters are no longer ...

Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica's interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause. A 30-year study, published in Nature Communications and led by Nagoya ...

Scientists have gotten their closest-ever view of the denizens that inhabit a frigid underworld. An analysis of the genetic blueprints of nearly 1,400 microbes sampled from one buried Antarctic lake ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

Most of Earth's fresh water is locked in the ice that covers Antarctica. As the ocean and atmosphere grow warmer, that ice is melting at a startling pace with sea levels and global currents changing ...

If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about ...