Antarctica

How do you drill through 600m of thick Antarctic ice? Using hot water, of course. In this episode from the 2020 series Voices from Antarctica, Alison Ballance joins researchers hoping to solve the… Audio

Out on the expanse of ice that is the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, Alison Ballance finds hot water. What will become of all this ice in a warming world?

Weddell seals have returned to breed near Scott Base in Antarctica after a decades-long absence. On land, they're blubbery lumps. But underwater, they're graceful dancers and ethereal singers. A team… Audio

Weddell seals have returned to breed near Scott Base in Antarctica after a decades-long absence. On land, they're blubbery lumps. But underwater, they're graceful dancers and ethereal singers. A team…

A team of NIWA scientists eagerly awaits the return of 19 emperor penguins carrying high-tech data loggers and video cameras. What will the data captured reveal about the penguins' secret lives at… Audio

The Voices from Antarctica replay continues with another episode from Cape Crozier, where a team of scientists eagerly await the return of several emperor penguins equipped with data loggers and video…

Revisit the frozen continent with us in this mini rerun of the Voices from Antarctica series. This week, Alison visits Cape Crozier to meet a colony of emperor penguins and the team of scientists… Audio

Join us in Antarctica, where Alison Ballance meets the emperor penguins at Cape Crozier – and the scientists unravelling what the penguins are up to when they're not chilling on the ice.

New Zealand's Antarctic scientists are using underwater robots to survey the seafloor of the Ross Sea.

Through videos and specimens collected by the robots, they want to understand how climate change… Audio

Some Adelie penguin colonies in Antarctica have been there for centuries. Which means there is a build up of thousands of years of penguin poo and carcasses. Warming temperatures will increase the… Audio

An unexpected "swarm" of marine life has been found in a newly explored Antarctic river deep beneath the ice. A team of scientists from Victoria University, NIWA, and GNS made the discovery while… Audio

A New Zealand led study has found that there are microplastics in Antarctica, found for the first time during a survey. Research fellow in Antarctic ice core climatology at Victoria University of… Audio

A visit to Scott's Terra Nova hut to learn about the care given to the objects by Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators. This is an edit of the Antarctic Heritage Trust's podcast 'Frozen in Time… Audio

An edit of the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s podcast ‘Frozen in Time: Scott’s Antarctic Legacy’. Conservators with the trust have worked hard to care for the hut and the more than 11,000 artefacts within… Audio

A newly discovered "microbial jungle" deep under the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, hundreds of kilometres from the open sea, that thrives without light, has been discovered by Kathryn's guest, Sergio… Audio, Gallery

Scientists have found and videoed South Pole explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship The Endurance, which was lost in November 1915. 107 years later, the wooden ship has been located three kilometres… Audio

Antarctica only has two seasons - Summer and Winter. They're currently in their Summer months and we've decided to hear how Kiwis at Scott Base are enjoying theirs. Ayana Piper-Healion is one of the… Audio

As summer flights head back to Antarctica, we look at the geopolitics of the land that no one owns, but everyone wants a piece of.  Audio

Not many people can say they have survived naked in the African wilderness for three weeks, but Waiuku twin sisters Amber and Serena Shine (The Wild Twins) can. Their new book, The Wild Twins: Tales… Audio