Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

The rapidly shrinking sea ice pack in Antarctic waters will likely recover if prompt action is taken to contain greenhouse gas emissions, according to a simulation by an acclaimed team of scientists.

The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in western Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. The lesson, which ...

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the ...

was lost in the pack ice – heralding a new age of Antarctic exploration. 5 January 2022 marks the centenary of the death of the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the end of ...

Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

In a remote corner of Antarctica, a group of killer whales ... The hunting technique of pack-ice killer whales has intrigued scientists for decades, and there is still so much unknown about ...

The waterways were too clogged with pack ice to launch the lifeboats ... Approximately ninety-eight per cent of Antarctica is covered in an ice sheet, which rises and drops and bends over the ...

who had been trapped for many months on Elephant Island – their refuge following the loss of their ship in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

While the Antarctic sea ice still covers about 386,000 ... mothers with new cubs den in snowdrifts on land or on pack ice. They emerge from their dens, with the new cubs, in the spring to hunt ...