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New research suggests that the huge ice sheet there may be vulnerable to collapse, with potentially drastic effects on the sea level.

Officials say a U.S.-operated Antarctic cruise ship with 160 people aboard has lost an engine in high seas, but is limping safely to its scheduled port, the Argentine Navy said Wednesday. ...

An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.

Parties to the Antarctic Treaty adopt limits to tourism in the region, in a bid to protect the fragile ecosystem.

Colony of sulfur-eating bugs lives without light, oxygen, has been cut off from rest of world for 1.5 million years.

A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided Friday with a Japanese whaling vessel in a dramatic Antarctic Ocean clash Japan condemned as 'unforgivable.'