When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

For many years, I had no idea that there was a difference between a penguin and a puffin. I learned to love penguins in ...

A playful penguin named Collin has become pals with a construction digger in Antarctica. Engineer named Alan Cox, travelled ...

What began as Shackleton’s ambitious plan to be the first to traverse the Antarctic continent instead became one of the most ...

Every year from November to March, the world’s tiniest post office needs a small team of workers to perform an unusually ...

The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

An intrepid penguin hailing from New Zealand’s Snares Island has popped up in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, more than ...

Filled with awe-inspiring glacial landscapes, unbridled adventure and wildlife that will capture your heart, from humpback ...

The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

Argentina’s Ushuaia and Chile’s Punta Arenas are the usual departure points for West Antarctic voyages, and to the relief of Antarctic tourists dreading Australia’s southern oceans or the infamous ...

Glistening icebergs. Adorable penguins. Majestic fiords. Antarctica’s growing popularity with tourists is being fuelled by ...