Britain's leading research body for scientific studies of Antarctica has been thrown a financial lifeline after it faced budget cuts of at least 25 per cent.

The scientific body whose groundbreaking discoveries include the hole in the ozone layer is facing massive cuts as the Government's austerity measures reach new frontiers

As the centenary of his death approaches, the letter he held as he died is made public for the first time

Conservationists claimed victory yesterday after Japan announced it had ended its whaling season early, having hauled less than a third of the annual target.

Wildlife protection across a vast area of ocean has been declared around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Culture of enquiry and curiosity attracts talent from all over the world

The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the Earth's frozen "cryosphere".

An Irish ultra runner has revealed a bottle of beer helped him become the only man on the planet to run seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days.

The last photographs taken by Captain Robert Scott on his doomed journey to the South Pole have been bought for the nation in time for today's centenary of the expedition.

The View From Here

Chris Leadbeater looks at some ice-cool trips to mark the centenary of the explorer's epic journey

Everybody's doing tests of endurance these days. Am I being left behind?

An exhibition of photographs charting the journeys of Scott and Shackleton across Antarctica are the finest of their type ever produced

One day I really must go abroad at Christmas and get away from it all.