A war-era DC-3 aircraft is playing an unlikely role in a state-of-the-art scientific survey of Antarctica's sea ice.

A second US ship is on its way to New Zealand waters, following last year's warship visit.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Junior distance runner Quinn Gardiner-Hall is just weeks away from following in the footsteps of his heroes to the icy southern land.

A cruise ship passenger has been evacuated to McMurdo Station in Antarctica before flying to New Zealand tomorrow.

The restoration of the hut included repainting it in its original bright orange and yellow colours.

A team of New Zealand Defence Force personnel have a big job ahead of them: helping off-load 3000 tonnes of cargo in the coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent on Earth.

Celebrations are kicking off in Antarctica today as Scott Base celebrates its 60th anniversary.

It may have been minus 10C in Antarctica, but Jeremy Moon was rugged up and ready for the occasion.

Lamingtons and cheese rolls will be on the menu when New Zealand's Scott Base celebrates its 60th year this weekend.

A major crack that has rapidly expanded is poised to create one of the world's biggest icebergs in a matter of months, scientists warn.

Helping restore a piece of Kiwi history - Sir Edmund Hillary's original hut at Scott Base in Antarctica - has proven a dream job for a young Auckland architecture student.

A collection of rare memorabilia stemming from the famous 1908 Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica, including items from the NZ leg of the trip, will be auctioned.

A Kiwi climate scientist says he's been alarmed at how much sea ice the planet's poles lost in 2016, in what was one of the hottest years on record.

On Christmas Day the sun never rises, there's no power and only polar bears for company. But it's all in a day's work for the North Pole patrol.

COMMENT: Tiny little specks of land hundreds of kilometres from New Zealand may hold key secrets about the future of our planet.

It's hard giving up summer for an overseas holiday, so why torture yourself? We've come up with five of the world's best summer destinations.

Changes taking place in Antarctica are significant another to influence those on the other side of the planet, new research co-authored by a Kiwi scientist has found.

Persistent, stored water inside of a floating East Antarctic ice shelf could be bad news, making it much more vulnerable to collapse.

A field training instructor at Antarctica New Zealand's Scott Base has shared a video offering an insight into life on the frozen continent.

Buzz Aldrin says he was evacuated from the South Pole last week because he became short of breath and began showing signs of altitude sickness.

The former astronaut, who became ill while visiting Antarctica, has been told to rest up in Christchurch while congestion in his lungs clears.

Buzz Aldrin made it to the South Pole before he was evacuated from Antarctica to a New Zealand hospital with fluid on his lungs.

The second man to walk on the moon has been evacuated from Antarctica to New Zealand suffering respiratory problems.

A Kiwi pop star and a Nasa astronaut have joined a line-up of speakers set to take part in an Antarctic TedX event that will be livestreamed around the world.

New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from Australia remains on the table, the Government says, despite a new offer by the

Secretary of State John Kerry won't criticize Donald Trump's climate policies, but says the next US Govt "dare not avoid" the issue.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says trip to Antarctica was "an extraordinary experience".

A National Geographic documentary series following Kiwi scientists in Antarctica premiered at Scott Base and in Christchurch this evening.

This month marks a decade since icebergs thrust Otago into the world spotlight, ODT illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery recalls how it played out.

Scientists have struck upon a simple equation that shows the true effect of greenhouse gases.