Antarctica

Wintery scene in Scotland

This is why I can't call myself Scottish any longer Gaby Soutar

Ernest Shackleton and other explorers from the team that reached a point 97 miles from the South Pole in 1909, a record at the time (Picture: Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive)

Why, when 'all hope is gone', we should remember Ernest Shackleton Scotsman comment

Elephant at a safari

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Penguins at Port Lockroy in Antarctica. A Scottish woman will spend five months counting penguins in Antarctica. Picture: UKAHT/Jerome Viard/SWNS

Scottish woman to spend 5 months counting penguins in Antarctica

Air bubbles rise in surface meltwater on the ice sheet that covers most of Greenland (Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How loss of trillion tonnes of ice a year is transforming planet Earth Ian Johnston

Some of the DecaDance team Pic: Kealan Bond

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Sir Ernest Shackleton died in 1922, aged 47, after suffering a heart attack on board his expedition ship, the Quest, in South Georgia, a UK overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Photo: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images

Cross erected in memory of explorer Shackleton to travel 7,000 miles to Scotland

A humpback whale (Picture: Martin Schneiter)

The ice world of Antarctica

Philip Hughes in Antarctica PIC: Courtesy of the Artist

Philip Hughes’s well-travelled notebooks to visit Stromness

Skye's beaches were found to contain rubbish from as far away as the US and China (Picture: Loughborough University)

Skye beaches littered with tonnes of plastic waste are a call to arms

Captain Will Whatley with Captain Ray Paterson of PPA.

Port hosts polar science vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough

Ollie Ferguson, 13, (right) and his brother Harry, 11, from Turriff, Aberdeenshire, who built replica boats to circumnavigate Antarctica. Picture: MacNeill Ferguson/PA Wire

Brothers launch replica boats to circumnavigate Antarctica in 'world first'

As climate change tipping points loom, protest is vital Richard Dixon

How Scottish tech is working with NASA to explain climate change

'By crossing the threshold of somewhere selling tunes and related paraphernalia, I was entering a world of fandom I would never leave.' (File image.) Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

The record store's key role in amplifying my love of music - Emma Newlands

First News: Five candidates needed to count penguins

Part of the job is to count the nearby Gentoo penguin colony.

Operate a post office and count penguins on Antarctica for a living

James pictured with the specially-designed flag prior to departure.

Following in the steps of Sir Earnest Shackleton and the Endurance crew

Jamie Douglas-Hamilton (UK), Stefan Ivanov (Bulgaria), Fiann Paul (Iceland), Brian Krauskopf (USA) and Lisa Farthofer (Austria) during the Harry McNish row.

Adventurer who rowed to Antarctica said it was ‘best experience of his life’

Captain Preet Chandi as she makes history for a second time after breaking another record during her second solo expedition to Antarctica. Photo: Preet Chandi /PA Wire

'Polar Preet' makes furthest unsupported solo polar ski expedition in history

The meteorite contains the oldest materials in the solar system.

Huge meteorites have been found in Antarctica by researchers

Scientists discover new emperor penguin colony in Antarctica

Gentoo penguins in Antarctica. Pic: PA Photo/Alamy.

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Irene Bernasconi is honoured by today's Google Doodle as the first woman from Argentina to lead a marine expedition to Antarctica.

Irene Bernasconi: 1st Argentine woman to lead a marine expedition to Antarctica

Nelson Norman meets a young penguin in Antarctica

Obituary: Prof Nelson Norman, consultant surgeon and remote healthcare pioneer

Sea level rise is causing increased coastal erosion in places like Quiberville, north-western France (Picture: Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images)

Potentially catastrophic sea level rise can still be avoided

Ernest Shackleton and the wrecked ship. Picture: PA Wire/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust

Shackleton’s lost ship ‘could be raised from under sea off Antarctica’

Mairi Hilton, originally from Bo'Ness, has been selected from 4,000 applicants to live and work on the island for five months. PIC: Contributed.

Scot heads 9,000 miles south to take up one of most remote jobs in the world

Making great STRYDEs in seismic imaging - Mike Popham

A charity is looking for a team of people to run the world’s most remote post office, which can be found in Port Lockroy bay in Antarctica, for five months. (Alexey Seafarer - stock.adobe.co)

World’s most remote post office in Antarctica is looking for staff - how to appl...

Ernest Shackleton: Where was Shackleton's Endurance ship found, who was Ernest Shackleton and how did he die? (Image credit: PA Wire/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust)

Endurance ship discovery: Who was Ernest Shackleton and how did he die?

Prince Andrew has agreed to pay the settlement.

Treasury - No public money used for Prince Andrew sex assault case

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.

In pictures: Ernest Shackleton’s ship Edurance found 107 years later

A team of international scientists has set sail for the Antarctic to study the behaviour of the massive Thwaites Glacier, which is melting faster than ever before as a result of climate change and could cause dramatic rises in global sea level in the near future. Picture: Jim Yungel/NASA

Boaty McBoatface on mission to study Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'

Dumbarton-born sailor Scott Thornton will spend the festive period close to the South Pole as part of a research mission to support UK scientists studying climate change, aboard the new exploration ship RRS Sir David Attenborough on its maiden voyage to Antarctica

Scots sailor set for white Christmas at South Pole with Sir David Attenborough

Edinburgh man Matthew Phillips definitely made sure he was indoors when he rolled up his sleeve for his Covid jab – delivered to him at the South Pole.

Edinburgh man gets his Covid jab delivered to him - at the South Pole

The Getz basin. (Pierre Dutrieux)

COP26: Glacier named after Glasgow to mark climate change summit

Britain's new polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough will make a special visit to London Greenwich from 28-30 October. Photo: AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali.

Sir David Attenborough ship: Where is the RRS Sir David Attenborough now?

The transformation of the Discovery Point attraction is expected to take four years to complete.

Climate change to take centre stage in revamp of Dundee's Antarctica attraction

Ancient remains found in deep-sea mud cores - such as this Foraminifera shell - preserve a record of historical carbon dioxide levels

Ancient history: how fossils should fuel climate action

Chris Doake in an ice cave

Obituary: Dr Chris Doake, Scottish glaciologist and Polar Medallist

A polar bear in Svalbard.

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Mollie Hughes, World record holder and Adventurer

Adventurer Mollie Hughes becomes first female president Scouts Scotland

Rob Taylor, who has been living in Antarctica since October, says he can freely enjoy drinks and meals with his co-workers and watch films together in a small cinema room.

Scot tells of life on Covid-free Antarctica - where residents live lockdown-free...

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Counting penguins and looking for slugs - how you can help nature research from ...

A penguin colony is a busy place. Picture: Lisa Young

Discover the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula

The continent of Antarctica has experienced its hottest temperature on record, with a research station provisionally recording 18.3C (64.94F). Picture: Getty

Antarctica experiences its hottest temperature on record

Renowned endurance swimmer and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)s Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh

Tough adventurers wanted to tackle icy Scottish waters in polar swim boot camp

The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century. Picture: TSPL

2019 set to be one of the hottest years on record

Asked what we can do to save the planet, Sir David, 93, said: "The best motto... is not to waste things." Picture: PA

Human beings have made 'tragic, desperate mess', says Sir David Attenborough

Jon Gertner, who has written a book entitled 'The Ice at the End of the World'

What Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet means for the planet

Airbnb is offering a free trip to the South Pole - here’s how to apply

Mollie Hughes in training for her next adventure. Picture: Mollie Hughes

“That’s how much I want to go”: Edinburgh adventurer will ‘auction off a bum che...

The first ever image of a black hole

First black hole image is a triumph of globalisation – leader comment

A penguin colony in Antarctica, where the impacts of pollution and global warming are evident

The not-so-strange connection between Antarctica and Leith – Lorna Slater

Mollie Hughes trains for her planned solo journey to the South Pole (Picture: Mike Wilkinson/PA)

How Mollie Hughes’ solo trek to South Pole can help us all – leader comment

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