Cancellation of the UK Antarctic Drilling project was confirmed as the team arrived back to the UK.
The controversial plan was to reduce the ice of the Antarctic to the consistency of slush by pumping different flavoured sauces into the ice, allow...
Buenos Aires - There's been a new development in Argentine protests about the naming of a toxic scrap of Antarctica after Britain's longest running hoaxer.
The decision to rename the frozen southern wastes of the British Antarctic Territory 'Queen...
Despite mounting anger from Argentina, after a part of Antartica was named after the Queen this week, it has been reported that the Falklands are to be renamed the "Nyah nyah ne-nyah nyah Islands".
The UK ambassador to Argentina was summoned on Fr...
Norman Springer of Dorking, is planning to become the first man to reach the South Pole on a pogo stick. He announced his intent at a press conference this morning, in which he spent the whole time pogoing.
Springer, aged 37, has previously been the first man to travel on a pogo stick from his house in south Dorking to Dorking Deepdene train station. This is a feat he will have to repeat if he...
Ever since NASA raced to put men in the moon, critics have been questioning the need for the space programme.
No longer!
Space boffins have finally silenced the nay-sayers by using satellite technology to find where penguins go to relieve thems...
New York, NY-- Leaders from around the world are beginning to discuss in public what has been known in private for many years. The continent of Antarctica has been colonized by extra-terrestrials. The alien race is willing to live in harmony with t...
East Antarctica-- Russian scientists drilling into the frozen Lake Vostok may have just made the most disgusting discovery in the history of science. The Russians succeeded drilling into Lake Vostok on February 5th, and expected to find pristine con...
King George Island, Antarctica - Bloated from gorging on krill and squid a colony of gassy Emperor Penguins may be behind the fire that's gutted a Brazilian research station in the Antarctic.
Until this morning the Comandante Ferraz base was carry...
A series of adverts for jobs at the South Pole has brought over 3,000 replies in less than a month.
The British Antarctic Survey is offering carpenters, joiners and electricians £23,000 salaries to work at research stations in some of the remotest...
Plucky Brit Robert Falcon Scott was forced to concede defeat to that Norwegian swine Amundsen in the race to the South Pole, reports ROYGBIV.
Despite the cold and the bad weather, Scott fought on despite not wearing a tie and despite Captain Oate...
Washington, DC - Geologists and astronomers are reporting tonight an alarming and unexpected development about Antarctica. The Frozen Continent is missing. The glue holding Antarctica to the earth came loose, and the entire continent went spinning...
In a real life James Bond Adventure a well-equipped and heavily armed group landed on a giant iceberg, which recently broke away from Antarctica, and declared that the iceberg was now the sovereign nation of Iceonia.
The local population of Peng...
Whitlandia,Antarctica Scientists Monday in a flyover determined that the floating ice cake is larger than the country of Australia, or is that a continent?
The group described the ice island as large, white, coldish, standing about eighty five f...
The Antarctic Commission, the governing authority of Antarctica, has launched a desperate plea to the press to ask the public to send money to support victims of the recent earthquake in Antarctica.
Two days ago an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 hit...
Fears are rising for the emotional stability of Antarctica after space probes noticed that the contentment is losing its ice.
In an attempt to slow or even reverse the receding ice, scientists at Antarctica Technology University (Antarctica) have...
I was doing a small jet washing job this morning, and it was absolutely bloody freezing. The water was turning to ice as it hit the ground, and I had decided to call it a day and come back at the weekend, when up strolls Robert Falcon Scott, closely followed by a lugubrious Captain Oates.
We chatted for a while, then Oates declared that he had to go outside, and may be gone some time.
Several...
Well kids, look who's headed for Fort Lauderdale Florida at the the height of the college Spring Break season! It's none other than Jennifer, the massive ice shelf currently hanging by a thread off the coast of Antarctica.
When questioned abou...
The Ice Bridge which holds the Antarctic Ice Shelf in place has shattered and the frozen southernmost continent is drifting north. Already moving up the Atlantic coast of South America, emperor penguins are shedding their coats and making reservation...