By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, nearly...

Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old pilot and social media influencer, has been detained on King George Island, Antarctica, after a failed attempt to complete a solo flight across all seven continents to raise US$1 million for childhood c...

Antarctica’s emperor penguin population may be decreasing faster than some of the most pessimistic predictions. A new analysis of up-to-date satellite imagery suggests the birds’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period (...

A 2022-2023 study published in Frontiers in Conservation Science provides the first documented evidence of ship anchor damage to Antarctica’s seafloor, revealing severe impacts on fragile marine ecosystems.

On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where...