Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a study by US space agency Nasa.

The Xuelong is Beijing's polar workhorse and made headlines in 2013 when its helicopter airlifted passengers from the ice-bound Akademik Shokalskiy.

Luis Andres Henao investigates the South Pole travel industry and finds that tourists now far outnumber scientists.

I spent last week in the Auckland Islands, where only a few people get to go. DoC, the Navy and universities send people down a few times a year.

Researchers find warm water eroding ice shelves in east and west Antarctica.

Twenty-six crew members on board an Australian-flagged fishing boat are trapped by ice in Antarctica, sparking a rescue bid by a New Zealand fishing vessel.

The toothfish pirates refused NZ permission to board, which we meekly obeyed, then, with fuel running out, we retired while the plundering continued, writes Brian Rudman.

Dramatic geothermal landscape of Waimangu volcanic rift valley a miniature Mars for space buggy inspired by next robotic rover Nasa plans to land on red planet.

The commanding officer of the navy ship that was outlasted by three ageing fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean has responded to critics who labelled the operation a disaster.

Eerie photographs taken during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole over a century ago have surfaced at an Auckland auction.

It was the Antarctic mission that set the template for all plane crash recoveries and was led by former New Zealand policeman Bob Mitchell.

Brett Grieve, Antarctica Being far from his children on Christmas Day is hard for Major Brett Grieve, but he knows it's all part of his duty.

Changes to the Southern Ocean's sea ice belt could mean see the global level rising several metres, says a new study which has shed more light on an ice-age mystery.

The protein that prevents Antarctica’s fish from freezing solid also means they spend their lives carrying hundreds of ice crystals in their bodies, a NZ scientist has found.

A renowned American engineer has dismissed Sir Edmund Hillary's historic resistance to a 1,600km route through the heart of the pristine environment of Antarctica.

Sea ice, winds and invertebrates will go under the microscope in the next stage of a major science programme turning to Antarctica to answer crucial questions about how the Earth will respond to climate change.

Ian Henderson relished the chance to venture beyond the world of safe, scheduled travel. His wife was not so sure...

The Antarctic ice sheet is disappearing at twice the speed of when it was last surveyed, losing 159 billion tonnes of ice to the ocean every year.

Scientists have discovered a pre-historic mainland species of sea lion thought to have been wiped out by Polynesian settlers and replaced by the modern NZ sea lion.

Parts of the vast ice sheet of east Antarctica - which holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 53m - could slide into the sea this century.

Experts have gathered in Queenstown to discuss Antarctic ice sheets and how a fast-increasing human population may change the frozen continent's pristine wilderness.

Adventurer Ben Saunders reveals how he completed his dangerous and difficult mission to retrace the steps of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole.