For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

A man is preparing to run the world's most southerly post office in Antarctica - having never worked as a postie before.

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Presenter of the greetings programme, Martin Redfern, visited Rothera a few years ago to record science programmes for BBC World Service. He says "Visitors to Antarctica cannot fail to be moved by ...

Sea spiders the size of dinner plates and two-meter-long ribbon worms that eat prey several times their own size were among the 1,400-plus species cataloged by the British Antarctic Service in a ...

At a press conference held on the Irizar yesterday the head of the Argentine Navy's Antarctic Service, Captain Raul Benmuyal provided details of the rescue operation explaining that the Argentine ...

Antarctica, however, was more or less out of reach. No more. Climate change has become our species’ great destructive equalizer, leaving no part of the planet safe from the harm we do.

Dale Ellis will be one of only five people living and working on a remote Antarctic island. The ship will sail 8,000km (4,970 miles) from Essex to the Antarctic - but what has its crew packed?

He is a recipient of the United States Antarctic Service Medal. In 1997, Pascal Lee initiated the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP), an international multidisciplinary field research project focused on ...

In fact, the research showed that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold over the last four decades. “The landscape is still almost entirely dominated by ...

This period corresponds to a time when dinosaurs roamed a verdant Antarctica, which was then part of the supercontinent ...

Show more Cerys Matthews presents one of the BBC World Service’s most unusual programmes. The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast is for the 38 scientists and support staff overwintering at three UK ...