Antarctica
Icebreaker leaves Australia after 150 Antarctica trips
The giant orange icebreaker Aurora Australis left Australia for the final time on Saturday after more than 150 trips to Antarctica. Next stop: a shipyard in Dubai, where it will be refurbished and either leased or sold.
Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?
At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.
First ever heatwave recorded in Antarctica
Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period.
UN: Antarctic high temp records will take months to verify
Record high temperatures reportedly measured in Antarctica will take months to verify, the U.N. weather agency said Sunday.
Antarctica appears to have broken a heat record
The temperature in northern Antarctica hit nearly 65 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius), a likely heat record on the continent best known for snow, ice and penguins.