On this day 102 years ago, Sir Robert Falcon Scott and the Terra Nova expedition arrived at the South Pole. Having finished behind Roald Amundsen in...
Emperor penguins are being forced to climb up walls of ice 100 feet high to reach new breeding grounds, because warming temperatures are changing their Antarctic...
The leader of an Antarctic expedition whose ship became stranded and had to be rescued has expressed his frustration over the “misrepresentation of the expedition”, after...
All 52 passengers aboard the Russian research vessel Akamedic Shokalskiy, which became trapped by sea ice over Christmas, have been evacuated. The ship, which was carrying...
Worsening weather conditions have forced an Australian icebreaker on its way to aid a Russian research ship trapped in the Antarctic to turn back, rescuers have...
Scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of liquid water hidden beneath the Greenland ice sheet, which could help them more accurately predict the effects of climate...
Climate change may be causing the North Pole to drift, scientists have claimed. Computer simulations have suggested that as glaciers and ice sheets melt, the distribution...
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth has been discovered in newly analysed satellite data to be an astonishing -93.2C (-135.8F). Unsurprisingly, the coldest place on...
The threat of abrupt climate change disasters, such as the poles melting or mass extinctions, is serious enough to warrant the development of an early warning...
Talks to create two protected marine reserves in the Antarctic have failed, as Russia, Ukraine and China refused to commit to the plans. Delegates from 24 countries...
Sea ice cover in the Arctic has improved since 2012, when record low levels were noted, but preliminary statistics from the National Snow and Ice Data...
The size of a proposed ocean reserve in Antarctic waters has been scaled back because of pressure from fishing nations. Governments, such as Russia, Norway, China,...
A team of British researchers is preparing for an ambitious mission to Antarctica, to investigate the rapid melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The £7.4m...
The hole in the earth’s stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica is slowly closing, but its effect on climate change is still uncertain, a scientist has claimed....
In the wake of events surrounding campaign group No Dash for Gas, Nick Slawicz takes a look at the changing face of environmental activism. The recent...