Fire prevention in one of the coldest places on Earth might not sound like the most likely job, but every year the US Antarctic Program recruits a team of fire-fighters to head poleward.

Openshaw-Rowe, who has never run a full marathon before, will complete her races across the world starting back in Antarctica before ... 183.5 mile run in full fire kit, with Openshaw-Rowe saying ...

Last October the ozone hole reached a record size of 23 million square kilometers, some 20 percent larger than the previous year. The team was able to show that a string of eruptions at the ...

These are questions often asked about Larsen C, a huge ice shelf, twice the size of Wales, attached to the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula. A dozen or so smaller floating ice platforms ...

“Comandante Ferraz” was inaugurated in February 1984, and was the hub of Brazilian Antarctic scientific research until 2012 when fire destroyed the settlement. The ceremony was scheduled to be ...

they aim to run in full fire kit. Only 11 months ago the pair returned from pioneering a new route across the south pole. The expedition followed a gruelling 53 day ski across the Antarctic from ...