The expedition followed a gruelling 53 day ski across the Antarctic from the Union Glacier to Constellation Inlet. The pair suffered many trials and tribulations during their journey, with Gilbert ...

Human eyes first glimpsed it during one of Richard E. Byrd’s famous Antarctic expeditions in 1940. The U.S. Navy partially mapped the glacier seven years later as part of Operation Highjump, but ...

China's 41st Antarctic expedition team set sail on November 1, 2024, starting a mission expected to last nearly seven months. Over the coming months, researchers will build the supporting ...

An emperor penguin swam approximately 2,100 miles from Antarctica to western Australia in what scientists believe is the longest journey ever recorded for the species. The penguin was first ...

He just looked absolutely flawless.' Experts believe the emperor penguin travelled to Australia from its home in Antarctica, which is a staggering 2,134 miles away. This marks the longest journey ...

The species is endemic to Antarctica but it is estimated three quarters of their icy breeding colonies are threatened by rising temperatures. The arrival of an emperor penguin in Denmark on ...

The Antarctic ozone hole on September 28, 2024. The ozone hole (dark blue region) is the total area where the amount of ozone in the stratosphere is less than 220 Dobson Units. (Image credit: NOAA ...

In December, he will embark on an expedition in Antarctica: an arduous sea-to-summit journey encompassing 600km of cross-country skiing, and a climb of almost 5,000m to the top of the continent's ...

In the Antarctic, with the onset of spring, the pace of seasonal sea ice loss has increased. Plot and compare different years and ranges. Obtain daily sea ice extent values, ranges, and median values ...

Antarctica is the only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the Cold ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of a line of glaciers sitting along the marine-facing rim of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)—a massive bowl of ice nearly three times the size of Texas sitting in ...