Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

The expedition aimed to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. It failed to accomplish this but instead became recognized as an epic feat of endurance when Shackleton rescued all ...

It also carries the hopes of every Shackleton enthusiast the world over. The man at the helm is Captain Knowledge Bengu, a 41-year-old from Durban of many years Antarctic experience. Beside him is ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition across Antarctica. He dreamed of becoming the first person to cross Antarctica via the ...

Join us as we journey through Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton, facing impossible odds and defying death at every turn. Trump Expels Hundreds Under Enemies Act as Court Rebukes Law Jeremy Clarkso ...

The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.

Beneath Mount Erebus, researchers have found a hidden underground ecosystem that could rewrite history. This hidden world may ...

The Endurance, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, had been lost for 107 years after being crushed by ice and sinking during the ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors.