Challenges for the Antarctic Treaty China's involvement in Antarctica is by no means new. The country set up its first research station in 1985, just two years after joining the Antarctic Treaty ...

Dr Sarah Thompson, a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, said Denman Glacier was of interest because it contained so much water. “The Denman Glacier is one of the ...

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

As the smaller portion of the Antarctic continent, the ice sheet is particularly vulnerable to collapse – yet its underlying volcanic rift is rarely taken into account when modeling its future. Our ...

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

Cat Burford, pictured at the South Pole, said her 700-mile challenge across Antarctica had been "really brutal" A dentist from Truro is celebrating reaching the South Pole unaided to realise a ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

PONANT unveils its much-anticipated 2026-2027 Antarctic season with an up to 30 percent PONANT Bonus in savings on all departures. As the sister-ships, Le Boréal, Le Lyrial, Le Soléal ...

Levy’s newly published study in Antarctic Science, however, reveals that Antarctica is changing in ways that will alter its influence on global climate and ocean patterns. The study started as a ...

This historic expedition laid the foundation for Dakshin Gangotri, cementing India’s place in global Antarctic research In December 1981, India took its first steps into the icy expanse of ...

Vernadsky's outside communications were temporarily cut off in 2022 after a Russian missile struck the National Antarctic Scientific Center in Kyiv. And more than two dozen polar researchers have ...