An expedition led by the motor yacht MY Legend has completed the first visual survey of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, ...

A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

are considered invaluable links to the "heroic age" of polar exploration, when eight nations launched 15 Antarctic expeditions between 1895 and 1917. The huts, among the only remaining ...

But in an age of exploration that relied on man-hauled sledges and preserved food, that feared low temperatures and had to reckon with inevitable scurvy, the inner polar regions maintained their ...

Topics may explore early Antarctic exploration, the Heroic Age, the life and legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar literature and the natural history of the region. Past programs have also ...

Image: She was the mother of the first polar bear to be born in the UK for 25 years. Pic: RZSS Image: Victoria lived to a ripe old age. Pic: RZSS Victoria was born at Rostock Zoo in Germany in ...

The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, had been receiving geriatric care at the ...