Antarctica

Antarctica is an ice covered land mass, a continent in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, home to the South Pole. Although Antarctica is mainly uninhabited by humans, besides a small amount of permanent residents and research station staff, its penguin population is 12 million. The effect of climate change on Antarctica is a large area of study.

Evidence of 2,000km-wide asteroid impact crater in Antarctica discovered © Mark Garlick/markgarlick.com/PA

Evidence of 2,000km-wide asteroid impact crater in Antarctica discovered

What are the 10 coldest places on Earth? © Getty Images

What are the 10 coldest places on Earth?

Antarctica: An icy time machine © Alamy

How Antarctic ice can help us travel back in time

Who really found the continent of Antarctica? © Getty Images

Who really found the continent of Antarctica?

New penguin colonies found on 'highly vulnerable' Antarctica coastline © Getty Images

Satellite images taken from space reveal 11 new penguin colonies

Rapid Ice Age retreat of Antarctic ice gives stark climate change warning © Getty Images

Rapid Ice Age retreat of Antarctic ice gives stark climate change warning

Penguins help researchers identify the most vulnerable areas of the Antarctic © David Merron Photography

Penguins help researchers identify the most vulnerable areas of the Antarctic

Antarctica once basked in 19°C summer temperatures (An artist’s impression of what the Antarctic rainforest would have looked like 90 million years ago (James McKay:Alfred Wegener Institute)

Antarctica rainforest once basked in 19°C summer temperatures

Dr Anna-Lisa Paul with kohlrabi plants © Esther Horvath

Everyday science

How to grow food in space The Antarctic base preparing for human space colonies

Antartica: the remarkable life that survives the coldest continent © John Brown

Antarctica The remarkable life that survives the coldest continent

Antarctic penguins' diet affected by climate change and human activity © Getty Images

Antarctic penguins’ diet affected by climate change and human activity

Climate change: extreme weather events could occur every year by 2050 (Waves crash over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England on October 21, 2017 as Storm Brian hits the country © GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)

Climate change Extreme weather events could occur every year by 2050

Why are some icebergs green? © Getty Images

Why are some icebergs green?

© David Despau

“I love it because it’s so remote. It used to take me three days to forget about the rest of the world”

Why is ozone depletion worse over Antarctica? © Getty Images

Why is ozone depletion worse over Antarctica?