Some parts of the normally icy continent of Antarctica are turning green with plant life at abnormally rapid rates due […] ...

The amount of vegetated area on the Antarctic Peninsula has grown nearly 14 times over since the middle of the 1980s ...

Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

The answer to why there is more air traffic over the North Pole than the South Pole is easy - there is far, far more ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom Roland said.

Another way to reach Antarctica is by flying. If you find yourself in the right season, you can fly to the South Pole from Cape Town or Punta Arenas. Scattered glaciers, stark landscapes, extreme ...

A military plane with 38 people on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile's air force ... The air force published a map of the plane's last known location on Twitter: before accepting.

Its features will be critical to our understanding of how the polar south might change in ... instability 'is spreading' The new map, called BedMachine Antarctica, shows, for example, previously ...

For this most recent trip, which began with a 26.2-mile run in Antarctica, the next seven ... The most difficult race came in South America where conditions were so humid several of the runners ...

Parts of South America, Antarctica and the Pacific and Southern Oceans will be able to witness this awe-inspiring phenomenon. NASA said the eclipse should be visible from Chile, Argentina ...

The discovery of leaf and dinosaur fossils in South America has revealed the continent was connected to Antarctica 20 million years more recently than previously believed. Around 600 million years ...