A Glasgow man has been describing spending the joys of Christmas working in the remote icefields of Antarctica.

A Leeds woman is among a group of five who are counting penguins on a remote Antarctic island.

The world's biggest iceberg is drifting towards the Atlantic Ocean after being stuck near Antarctica.

A few hundred people get ready for Christmas in the snowy continent thousands of miles from home.

Dale Ellis will be one of only five people living and working on a remote Antarctic island.

Albatrosses and petrels are being forced to fly further to find food, a study claims.

Another big iceberg breaks from in front of the UK's Halley research base - the third in three years.

The first avian influenza cases in the penguins of South Georgia are reported by scientists.