For over a century, scientists were baffled by Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls, where deep red water flows from a glacier, looking like something out of a horror movie. But now, researchers have ...

Antarctica wasn’t always there, at the bottom of the Earth. Over one billion years ago it was in the Northern Hemisphere, ...

If we can invent fictions that protect capital, contracts and corporations, then we certainly can invent one that protects a place that we already recognise as having intrinsic value and utility ...

Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that ...