Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica in Japan.

Comprising 11 major islands, this icy archipelago is filled with spectacular landscapes, wildlife and ruins left by humans.

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take ...

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica.

Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging populations.

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and South Korea have reached one of the most remote and least studied parts of ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.