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

Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

The fascinating fight for survival among Antarctica’s tiniest animals.

Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news, the worst-case scenario may be off the table.

In the barren cold deserts of ice-free Antarctica only lichen, mosses and algae survive – for now.

In some of the most remote places on Earth, tags attached to seals collect data at the cutting edge of ocean science.

To narrow our predictions of global sea level rise, we need to know more about these sudden ‘non-linear’ changes to ice sheets.