China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

As the threat of global climate collapse grows, Beijing is considering a plan to turn the Tibetan Plateau into an agricultural stronghold The plot of the Hollywood doomsday film, 2012 - where China ...

Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation ...

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According to UN’s WMO, the “devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights” last year with floods, heatwaves and “supercharged hurricanes”.

WELLINGTON -- Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, opened its decks to the public on Tuesday at Lyttelton ...

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

A scientist at a South Africa-run research base in Antarctica sent a desperate email to the government, alleging that a team ...

The prohibition of power bank use on airplanes, implemented by airlines such as Singapore Airlines and China Airlines, aims ...

According to an international treaty, military vessels aren't allowed in Antarctica without a scientific objective. That's ...

New Zealand media hyped that China plans to "construct its second base on the New Zealand side of Antarctica." A Chinese ...