“Here we reveal unexpectedly abundant and diverse microbial community even in these driest, coldest, and nutrient-poorest of soils, which suggest that biodiversity estimates in Antarctic soils ...

The huts, among the only remaining structures from humanity's first known attempts to inhabit the continent, are overseen by the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust, and scientists ...

The breakthrough means China has become the first country to achieve the large-scale operation of a clean energy system under extreme Antarctic conditions. Lead scientist Sun Hongbin, 56 ...

The 1985 discovery by scientists at the British Antarctic Survey identified a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer over our southernmost continent, triggering immediate global concern about ...

And according to the experts, this underground water world could play a major part in how the Antarctic Ice Sheet reacts to our warming planet. Beneath Antarctica’s icy crust lies an entire secret ...

The National Science Foundation has released a request for proposals for the potential 20-year, $8 billion Antarctic Science and Engineering Support Contract, or ASESC. According to the RFP ...

A long-line of Pensacola aviators have visited the Antarctic, including both the first man to fly there and the first man to land there. Antarctic geographical features named after Pensacola ...

Until fairly recently, the oldest ice recovered from the thickest part of Antarctic ice sheets was around 800,000 years old. While undeniably old, that's not quite old enough for what climate ...

Martinson) In the meantime, while the unexpected, decades-long overall increases in Antarctic sea ice extent are still being puzzled out, the sea ice extent has taken a dramatic turn from relatively ...

Geologist Ian Plimer talks about shocking revelations of the Antarctic shelf experiencing record growth. “We have cycles, and these cycles are where the ice sheets grow and the ice sheets ...

The resulting concern for the health of the Antarctic ecosystems and their extraordinary marine and terrestrial life has kept environmental issues at the forefront ever since the Antarctic Treaty was ...