For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The British Antarctic Survey's Halley VI research station modules at the old site. REUTERS ...

There are at least 50 species of icefish in the frigid waters of Antarctica. Family Nototheniidae (icefish); Himantothallus Grandifolius (kelp) Body stowed inside the ice floe, an anemone lets its ...

But the Antarctic’s timelessness is an illusion. Only a decade ago, on summer nights across the coast, the sun would glide ever so slightly over the ocean, dusting its ice floes in golden light.

The formation of sea ice also makes the surrounding water saltier, as salt is pushed out when water freezes. If less sea ice ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

Sea ice floes gather in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. A new research review integrates decades of satellite measurements to reveal how and why Antarctica's glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer ...

In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the ...

In the morning they watched precious sacks of coal drop down a crevice, hover a moment on the brash ice, then sink into the Antarctic. They yelled to their dogs scattered on drifting floes.