Antarctica News

The earth's sea and ice cover is not a static thing, but changes continually. This year is a good example, with Antarctic sea ice extent setting a growth record, while the Arctic sea ice did better than 2012's record low sea ice extent.

The heavy metal legends of Metallica have announced what could arguably be their most badass concert to date — a live gig in Antarctica.

A team of adventurous filmmakers has made a documentary that shows the opportunities to see wildlife along Chile, from the arid regions of the Atacama Desert to the Patagonia and Antarctica, and from the high Andes to the Pacific Ocean.

Each of the Earth’s continents has experienced a rise in temperature with the exception, it was previously thought, the Antarctic. However new data suggests that southern region is also subject to global warming.

Sheets of ice one mile thick cover most of Antarctica, obscuring many of its geographical features. Now a new animation by NASA offers the most detailed and accurate picture yet of what the landmass would look like if all that ice were to melt.

Emperor penguins are the largest of all the varieties of penguins averaging a height of 115 centimetres. They also live in the coldest place on earth, Antarctica. Now scientists have discovered how they manage to survive the cold.

Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey have located what they believe to be one of the largest colonies of emperor penguins ever discovered.

Early on Christmas Day it was announced that a British expedition to investigate Lake Ellsworth, a sub-glacial lake over two miles below the surface of Antarctica, had to be called off.

The "lost world" of Lake Ellsworth is a subglacial lake which lies 3.4 km (2.1 miles) under a solid mass of glacial ice in the western part of Antarctica.

In a study released last week, scientists attached to Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) revealed the existence of bacteria in one of Earth’s most alien habitats, 20 metres below a frozen lake in Antarctica.