You might wonder what the British Antarctic Survey is doing making maps of the polar north. Henry Burgess, the head of the NERC Arctic Office which is hosted at the survey's HQ in Cambridge ...

Could it be green like the tundra landscapes we know from the Arctic? I'm part of ... to produce the first map of green vegetation across the whole Antarctic continent. We detected 44.2 km² ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole, and is home to lots of species such as penguins, whales, mosses, and lichens. Challenges in Antarctica One of the biggest challenges Antarctica faces is climate ...