A flurry of snowflakes swirls past in the cold morning air—at least they look like snow—but I soon realize they’re actually penguin feathers, lofted by wind from the colony of stinky birds nesting a ...

This is the heartwarming moment a photographer captured an Antarctic seal stretching out to scratch one of its flippers. The video shows a Weddell seal scratching an itch and later laying down next to ...

Danco Island — The 80 female professionals, many of them scientists, from all around the world who are participating in the Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica are learning about climate change’s ...

DANCO ISLAND, ANTARCTICA–The great Alaskan explorer John Muir once wrote that to dine with a glacier on a sunny day is a glorious thing. Even more glorious is to sleep beside one, on an Antarctic ...