Most meetings reward the loudest and quickest voices. Fast talkers dominate, while more reflective thinkers get sidelined. Ideas are judged not by their substance but by the confidence with which they ...

Irish Polar Institute founded to honour explorers' achievements in the Arctic and Antarctic, with annual awards for ...

In 1957, a team of Kiwis led by Sir Edmund Hillary undertook an extraordinary journey across Antarctica as part of the ...

America’s brainchild — may be humanity’s greatest geopolitical feat, governing the only continent never to see war. Now, as China pulls ahead in polar science, the US may be sabotaging its role in the ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages has launched a brand-new polar expedition for 2026: the "Canadian Arctic Discovery", a 17-night ...

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

There can be few on this island who have never heard of Ernest Shackleton or Tom Crean, but a new Irish award aims to ...

Sudden onset blindness spurred Mark Pollock to become an adventure athlete, and when a fall from a second-story window ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...