You're cut off from civilization and stuck in one of the most unforgiving wastelands on Earth. Don't count on a rescue ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend ... This is similar to how dunes form and move in a desert. However, new computer models are needed to simulate the formation and ...

While the desolation of Antarctica's polar desert leads to it often being overlooked, the world's southernmost continent "has been one of the most rapidly warming parts of the planet" over the ...

Chrissie: No, sorry, I left the garage door open! Hahaha. Antarctica is a desert - but it's not hot, it's really, really cold. It's called a desert because it hardly ever rains. The South Pole is ...

Antarctica can be called a desert because of its lack of precipitation (this is the amount of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from the sky). It has less precipitation than any other desert ...

Antarctica. During the past 20 years, our mutual love for exploration has taken us to every corner of the globe, but our recent journey to this vast, icy desert feels distinctly different.

The frozen continent has never been so desirable. But as other nations try to get in on the action, a race to the bottom ...

It’s surreal to look back at the ship’s bow totally engulfed by ice. We’re the only living, breathing things here – until a ...

Antarctica, by contrast, remained comparatively under the radar. But more than a century after explorers raced to plant flags in the frigid polar desert, countries are once again starting to vie ...

Any potential traveler to Antarctica who gets even the slightest bit queasy in rough waters views a sail to the White Continent with trepidation. The reason is the Drake Passage, the channel that ...