Antarctica

It looks like something out of a sci-fi film but the research team insist that it is one of many of this strange type of underwater life.

This year's sea ice minimum is 20% lower than the average over the last 40 years, equivalent to a sea ice loss nearly 10 times the area of New Zealand.

Unclaimed pieces of land known as Terra Nullius still exist around the globe.

Theorists can spin this discovery as anything they want, though expert geologists believe it is just a mountain.

Last week, the hottest days of the year record was broken three days in a row.

A recent study found that massive tsunamis from Antarctica hit South America, New Zealand and Southeast Asia during two previous periods of global warming.

Iran says that it could achieve direct access to the polar region and therefore claim “sovereignty” in that area.  

Deep ocean water flows from the Antarctic could decline by 40% by 2050, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

20 major glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - which is four times larger than the UK - are major contributors to global sea levels.

Tourists from all over the world are flocking to see it before it sinks like fabled Atlantis under the waves and is lost forever.