It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica’s pristine landscape is ...

Scientist Jasmine Lee with an Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica. (Peter Ryan/Fitzpatrick Instititute of Ornithology / Australian Antarctic Division) As climate change continues to cause massive ...

The cave systems underneath the Antarctic ice could be home to an "exciting new world" of plants and animals. After analyzing DNA retrieved from a cave system underneath the Ross Island volcano Mount ...

The Earth's South Pole, known for being a land of penguins, is covered in ice. But it wasn't always this way: Tens of millions of years ago, Antarctica was lush and green — and full of very different ...

Dec. 22 (UPI) --More than half of Antarctica's native species will likely disappear by the end of the century if global warming continues at its current pace, according to new research published ...

Two hundred years ago, on Nov. 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the Antarctic continent, one of three parties to do so in 1820. Unlike explorers Edward Bransfield and Fabian von ...

Q. Why do so many animals turn white in winter or stay white all year at the North Pole, but not at the South Pole? Wouldn't the same camouflage conditions apply to both? Will global warming affect ...

It’s been a really interesting weekend. Yesterday I saw a leopard seal consuming a crabeater seal just off the coast. Birds swooped around above the seal, hoping to get a small piece. Later in the ...

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their lives the birds are defenseless gray fluffballs, seeking warmth at their parents ...

It’s a story of unlikely friendship. A small research robot is currently living with an Emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, providing vital information for researchers in Cape Cod, CBS Boston ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.