Antarctic cruises have never been so popular, with roughly 100,000 passengers a year. About 98% of them sail from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, in the west. But just a few sail to the ...

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for penguins and seals and a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands ... uniquely adapted to survive in the barren Antarctic. The surrounding islands, however, belong to their slightly smaller noble cousin ...

In our new research, we analysed a century of data on how many species have been introduced to the icy continent and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands. Though there’s little human presence here ...