Norway/Uruguay-based Pesquera Azul’s has successfully trialed an innovative catch protection cage in whale-rich waters in the southern Indian Ocean. The company says it is a potential game-changer for ...

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 continent.

Antarctica is otherworldly – breathtakingly beautiful, and yet so alien, frozen, and unforgiving that it is hard to imagine surviving there. Author and explorer Jon Krakauer has said of it, ...

I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned living through nine months of darkness and -112F temperatures - IN FOCUS: Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research ...

CAPE DENISION, Antarctica (Reuters Life!) - Living in freezing isolation in Antarctica is a test of endurance for even the toughest of adventurers with veterans to the South Pole convinced that a ...

Gerry Leape directs the Antarctic Krill Conservation Project for the Pew Environment Group. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) In 1959, a dozen nations agreed on the peaceable use of the ...

Brian didn't celebrate his 60th birthday with cake and candles at home. Instead, he stood on top of Law Dome - an ice ...

MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica (Reuters) - For scientists at this ice-encircled outpost, global warming is not a matter of debate. It is a simple fact and crucial research questions center on what its ...

An emperor penguin colony has a new metallic member. A tiny robot, named "Echo," is living with the penguins in Antarctica. The unmanned vehicle will help scientists study the vulnerability of marine ...

IN FOCUS: Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training regimes to do so. Holly Baxter speaks to two former Antarctica ...