Antarctica, the icy continent, is experiencing a surprising transformation as its fringes turn green with plant life in the ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

Iceberg A23a first broke away from the Filchner Ice Shelf, in the southern Weddell Sea on Antarctica, back in 1986 - and has ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan ...

NASA and the United States Geological Survey sent the first Landsat into space in 1975. Since then, they've launched eight ...

Uncle Bob is on an expedition to the South Pole, and he sent me a photo of his frozen baked beans but I don’t know where to place it on the map. Chrissie: Well, Antarctica is way down in the ...

forcing the redrafting of Antarctic maps. Iceberg B-15A is 115 kilometres long which originally broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Scientists predicted an imminent collision of the ...

A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone that will help experts forecast the impacts of climate change. The autonomous plane will map areas of the continent ...