Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

The film introduces some aspects of the geography of the South Pole: This could be investigated further through looking at maps and atlases ... in the ocean around the Antarctic.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of ...

The world’s second largest body of ice – the Greenland Ice Sheet – is cracking open quicker than previously, scientists have ...

Experts warn that sea levels could rise by seven metres and cause mass destruction if the ice sheet was to melt ...

The competition challenged students to create a unique "Perins flag" to be sent to Antarctica, and now their efforts have ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's coldest ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

This astonishing extraterrestrial face was spotted in a Google Earth satellite image of Antarctica. Visit 72°00'36.0"S, ...

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

"After 30 years of abusive behavior from a kid who sucked all of the oxygen from the room, I made my peace with the fact that ...