A striking new phenomenon is emerging: distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves that are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain. A new study ...

Cartographer Will Pringle created beautiful, exquisitely detailed maps for Australian Geographic for almost four decades.

Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country ...

The main agenda? The precarious future of Antarctica’s ice, arguably our planet’s last untouched wilderness. The experts’ conclusion, published as a press statement, is a somber one: if we don’t act, ...

US scientists who completed first global map of extreme heatwaves say ‘wobbling jet stream’ may be contributory factor ...

Over the past week, more than 450 researchers gathered in Hobart for the inaugural Australian Antarctic Research Conference — the first such event in more than a decade. Early career researchers ...

Photo: Peter W Allen//UTAS Antarctica is staring down the barrel of a gun, and humans are the ones holding it. Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how ...

The flagship vessel of the oceanographic fleet will be able to explore the deepest and most unknown parts of the ocean, in ...

After the caver noticed a giant gash across a barren landscape, scientists discovered it was created by a ferocious tornado ...

The island is the caldera of an active volcano and has a large and unusually safe natural ... including a cemetery - the largest in Antarctica, a radio station, a hand-operated railway and a ...