A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious ...

Antarctica has lost sea ice equivalent in area to Greenland – and it has not returned, according to new satellite data. This ...

Researchers documented how cruise ship anchors can harm some of the oldest species of marine life in Antarctica.

Known as Blood Falls, the waterfall pours crimson from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. As the ...

Thousands of miles from home and -75C cold: Life is tough in Antarctica even before death threats from scientists. After scientists at the South African Sanae IV research station pleaded for help ...

Life in Antarctica during mid-winter is defined by its absence of daylight.As the Australian Antarctic Program describes it: "For a few weeks each year the sun fails to rise on the world's most ...

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

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

How Earth's most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240904141509.htm.

Even in Antarctica, during the peak of its winter, extreme heat pushed temperatures in parts of the continent more than 50°F above the July normal. In a study published on July 31 in the journal Earth ...