By Francesco De Augustinis The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems ...

The main goal of the expedition had been to locate, map, and capture images of the Endurance, the historic ship from Shackleton’s 1915 expedition that sank in the same area. However, during their ...

The Hektoria Glacier measures 296 square kilometers, approximately half the size of the city of Madrid, in Spain, and ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...

More than five miles (eight kilometres) of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times faster ...

Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate.

Off the Oscar II coast in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, south way from the mountains, Hektoria Glacier is melting faster than an ice-cream on a hot summer day. Babbling within ...

The Antarctic region is one of the most pristine wildernesses left on the planet. However, it is facing a number of threats, such as overfishing, pollution and climate change. WWF is working in this ...

Deep ocean water in the Antarctic is heating up and shrinking, with potentially far-reaching consequences for climate change and deep ocean ecosystems, according to a report. “Antarctic bottom water” ...

Antarctic sea ice recently reached an all-time record wintertime low, scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced. The mark was set "by a wide margin," the center said in a release ...

Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to a ...

The necessity to protect the world’s last remaining continental wilderness from potential ecological collapse. Few of the earth’s remaining wilderness environments are more vulnerable or valuable than ...