Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

One way around this is to drill the sea floor off the Antarctic Coast, and a team led by Dr Johann Klages of the Alfred Wegener Institute hit paydirt off Pine Island in the Amundsen Sea.

For over 30 years, the iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice.

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse emissions.

It remained grounded on the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea floor for more than 30 years, probably until it shrank just enough to loosen its grip on the seafloor. Then, the iceberg was carried away by ...

The Antarctic strawberry feather star gets its name from the strawberry-like nub on its body, from which string like appendages called cirri protrude anchor the animal to the seafloor. When ...

British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species faces growing threats from climate change ...