Metallica are to perform in Antarctica.

Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic Peninsular than at any time in the last 1,000 years, research has shown.

A project to drill into an Antarctic lake has been abandoned for the season.

A man who has sailed the wrong way round the world to avoid pirates will get a hero’s welcome when he sails in to his home town this weekend.

Rorke Bryan has produced a wonderful book, says Tim Severin , about the ships that brought explorers — and tourists — to the ends of the earth

LASERS beamed from space have revealed that glaciers in the Antarctic and Greenland are melting faster then predicted, climate scientists said yesterday.

SATELLITE images from the European Space Agency (ESA) show massive amounts of ice are breaking away from an ice shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said.

AN ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history has shattered and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said.

JAGGED mountains the size of the Alps have been found entombed in Antarctica’s ice, scientists said yesterday.

A CLIMATE change lecture series which proved an unexpected hit with the public is being made available online to satisfy demand.

MORE than 200 leading climate scientists yesterday called for urgent cuts in greenhouse gases, with reductions of at least 50% by 2050.

A HIDDEN universe of exotic marine life has been discovered in the ocean depths around Antarctica.

A CLIMATE change time bomb may be just 10 years away from detonating, according to the latest global warming evidence.

CLIMATE change poses a greater risk to the world than was previously thought as global warming advances at an unsustainable rate, a report warned yesterday.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 was registered off the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, the US Geological Survey reported today.

ALBATROSSES regularly make epic round-the-world flights when they are not busy breeding, scientists revealed yesterday.

THE hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole has reached a record size, scientists said yesterday.

Europe’s biggest celebration of science, technology and discovery starts today at the University of Leicester.

A member of the three-woman expedition bidding to set a Polar trekking record has been airlifted off the ice with frostbitten feet, it emerged today.

British troops have withdrawn from South Georgia, almost 20 years after its invasion by Argentinian soldiers sparked the Falklands War.