Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those ...

As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

Three people were airlifted from Antarctica in a high-risk rescue mission this week, after medical emergencies at a remote U.S. research base required urgent evacuation through some of the harshest ...

It may be the middle of summer here, but it is the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere. Temperatures on the East Antarctica Plateau, a giant ice shelf with an average elevation of 11,000 feet, ...

Antarctica has long been known as one of the most forbidding areas on earth, thanks to an inhospitable environment and a lack of any native inhabitants — well, human ones anyway. But there are ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand's air force said on Wednesday it had evacuated three people from a United States research base in Antarctica, in what it said was a high-risk operation in freezing ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

Antarctica, the world's coldest continent, is experiencing an exceptionally long heatwave during its winter, according to Britain's national polar research institute. Temperature anomalies are not ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

New Zealand air force pilots accomplished one of their most perilous missions this week, executing a dramatic evacuation from Antarctica’s frozen wilderness that pushed human endurance and aircraft ...