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

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

The updated map of Antarctica clearly shows the landscape beneath its massive ice sheet, including its tallest mountains and ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote ...

The latest effort has 82million data points on 500m of grid spacing and previous gaps of knowledge have been “filled in” on the South Pole, along the Antarctic Peninsula, West Antarctic ...

"Humans have always brought their own interests to Antarctica," he says. In 1911, Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, where no one had set foot before. With this ...

I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in Antarctica “is a land that looks like a fairy tale … the coldest ...

March is the month of the famous carnivals in South America. However, the month also signifies the end of the Antarctic summer campaigns. Argentina and Chile are two of the seven countries that claim ...

Winter temperatures can fall "as low as -75C", and those stationed at the South Pole will experience "complete darkness for several months", said The Independent. Antarctic scientists are trained ...

(Mass firings have also taken place at the NOAA.) “The climate science [at the South Pole Station] is super unique,” an Antarctic scientist says. “The site has so little pollution that we ...

Maher was well suited to work in Antarctica. “The high is -5° and the lows get down to -40° air temp. And the wind blows all the time,” he said. Maher even ran a 10K while at the South Pole.

Languages: English. A group of South African scientists has pleaded for help, saying they are trapped in an isolated base on a cliff edge in Antarctica with a team member who has become violent.