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.
The Morrison Government has decided to not proceed with a decision to build a 2700m concrete runway at Australia's Davis research station in Antarctica.
For the entire Antarctic continent, the winter of 2021 was the second-coldest on record, with the "temperature for June, July, and August 3.4C lower than the 1981 to 2010 average at -62.9C", according to a new report
Australia's ambitious scientific mission to retrieve an Antarctic ice core dating back more than a million years is a step closer, with the unveiling of a new 400-kilogram drill capable of pulling samples from almost three-kilometres under the ice cap.
For decades, historians and scientists believed Antarctica was first discovered by Europeans and Americans. But according to a new study, it may have been New Zealand's indigenous Maori people who first laid eyes on the icy landscape.
In an ever-warming climate, ripple effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting Antarctic ice sheet, a new study says.
A supply ship that has been avoiding the global impact of coronavirus for the past 18 months has returned to Australia's west coast after a fire broke out in one of its engines.
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