A team of Australian scientists are at the forefront of a groundbreaking mission to solve one of the planet's most pressing mysteries: why a critical glacier in Antarctica is melting faster than ...

Antarctic researchers are on high alert for a deadly strain of bird flu, which could hit the continent’s wildlife at any ...

Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.

Australian scientists have started drilling in Antarctica for million-year-old ice as they try to shed light on the Earth's ...

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution to the carbon export ...

Drilling has begun in Australia's quest for the oldest, continuous ice core record of Earth's climate, dating back more than ...

The Australian Antarctic Division has compiled seldom seen shots taken by its staff in Antarctica that includes cooks, ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

Credit: Louise Emmerson/Australian Antarctic Division. “It will arrive at some stage, we just don’t know when, and so we need to put the preparation in now,” said Dr Louise Emmerson ...

Both melt and faster flow would contribute to sea level rises. Australian Antarctic Division field leader Simon Cross said this was the final year for the research outpost, so 36 tonnes of ...