"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

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"These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica." ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

The allure of Antarctica continues to skyrocket, and longtime polar outfitter White Desert—a winner in Travel + Leisure's 2025 Global Vision Awards—is using the continent’s popularity for good.

Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and ...

South African authorities have put a crew member of a remote research team at the South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE) IV base in Antarctica under psychological evaluation after ...

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors.

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences. As Totten Glacier oozes off the ...

China currently has five stations in Antarctica, including one that opened last year. It has now lodged plans for a new summer research station in West Antarctica — with China's Ambassador to ...

Nine members of an Antarctic expedition are locked up together at a research station 2,000 miles from civilization. And one of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and ...