What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

Uncharted island will soon appear on nautical charts,” as a group of scientists have uncovered a mystery, unnamed landmass ...

Scientists discovered an uncharted Antarctic island in the Weddell Sea during an expedition, prompting updates to global maps ...

A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows ...

Well, isle be damned. Explorers made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling across an uncharted, Egyptian pyramid-sized ...

EXPLORERS have accidentally discovered a new island in Antarctica after seeking shelter from a storm on its shores, and its ...

Polar scientists thought it was a dirty iceberg at first.

A vast ocean current encircling Antarctica—more powerful than all the world’s rivers combined—played a surprisingly complex role in shaping Earth’s climate.

The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater. This concentration at the base of the food web poses a ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

A 93-strong international expedition team has been exploring the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the ...

On 20 March 2026, the glaciologist will take over as scientific director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). To date, he has been active as the ...