Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, is a place of extremes. Over 99% of Antarctica is covered in ice, which is up to 4.9 km thick inland, and extends over the sea in the form of ice shelves ...

Complete and utter shock' after abrupt resignations of two Atlantic premiers CBC News team travelling aboard Royal Canadian Navy ship to Antarctica Canada coach Jesse Marsch calls 51st-state rheto ...

Weighing a whopping one billion tonnes, the iceberg has been tracked by scientists for years since breaking off from the Antarctic ice sheet back in 1986. But until 2020, it had been essentially ...

Mega-iceberg from Antarctica on collision course with South Georgia: Harbinger of things to come? Date: February 24, 2025 Source: Utrecht University Summary: It is no strange sight to see icebergs ...

The SA Agulhas II research and Antarctic supply ship returned to Cape Town on Monday following her annual supply and relief voyage to the SA National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE) IV base, but the ...

Parent/guardian consent required for minors. One Grand Prize, consisting of a trip for two (2) persons (Contest Win to Antarctica to be won, estimated total retail value CDN$54,310. Odds of ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, the Antarctic midge, has finally given up some of its tightly held survival secrets, thanks to a new study by researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University. Researchers ...

A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research. In our market-driven world, calculating the economic value of the environment ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has caused the death of hundreds of millions of birds in the last five years around the world, is spreading across Antarctica, a pristine paradise ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin feathers. And now, after a decade-long analysis, Sontag and his ...