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.

BEING asked to recount highlights of working in the Antarctic is very difficult because there are so many highlights and it is so difficult to pick the best.

SHIPS are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

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.

A massive ice shelf anchored to the Antarctic coast by a narrow and quickly-deteriorating ice bridge could break away soon, the European Space Agency warned.

The tourists rescued from a stricken Antarctic cruise liner were beginning their long journey home today.

There are reports that four Irish people are among the 100 passengers that had to be rescued from a stricken cruise liner in the Antarctic Ocean today.

EVIDENCE is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world’s delicately-balanced climate system and the damage will reverberate for generations, a top science conference was told yesterday.

RESEARCHERS probing mountains and ancient seas in Antarctica have discovered two previously unknown types of dinosaurs, according to America’s National Science Foundation.

A small plane took off from a British Antarctic base tonight to rescue a sick American doctor at the South Pole.