Australia's Antarctic explorers often say your first expedition is for the excitement, your second trip is for the money. The third time you go? You must be crazy.
The expeditioner at Casey research station has a developing medical condition and needs care in Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division said in a statement.
The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer.
Australian regional airline Rex is aiming for a surprise new gig helping some of our country's top scientists carry out research in snowbound Antarctica.
A major glacier in northwest Greenland is interacting with the ocean tides, scientists reported on Monday, resulting in previously unaccounted-for melting and potentially faster sea level rise.
Just one month into the extreme season, Matthew photographed an "extra special" phenomenon. But it wasn't for the faint-hearted as the temperature plummeted.
Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast implications for the global climate and for marine life, a new study warns.
Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic drops are a signal the climate crisis may now be more clearly influencing this vast, complex and isolated region.
Photos of early twentieth century British and Australian Antarctic expeditions have been digitised by The National Archives of Australia. The images show the brutal but awe-inspiring landscapes of the frozen continent and the men who explored it.
Thousands of kilometres away from Australia, past New Zealand and tucked away between Antarctica and South America lies a graveyard - but you won't find any human remains there.
Queensland tourism support, Antarctica research and leadership, and flood recovery are the environmental biggest focuses in this year’s Federal Budget.
Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice.