The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...

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Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

Manuel Berrocoso, a scientist at the University of Cádiz and one of Spain’s leading experts in Antarctic geodynamics, has just returned from another research campaign in the South Shetland Islands, ...

Turkish scientists say research shows risks in Antarctic region from diseases carried by migratory birds to plastic waste ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

In 1911, a geologist on the ultimately doomed Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole discovered a five-story-tall, blood-red ...

Scientists found unexpected evidence the area of polynyas around Antarctica is increasing dramatically, and it follows an intriguing cycle, growing and shrinking roughly every 16 years. An increase in ...

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...

Foreword / Prince Albert II of Monaco -- Preface / Paul Arthur Berkman [and others] -- Science as a tool of diplomacy. Building the international legal framework for Antarctica / Marie Jacobsson -- ...