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

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

“Rwanda is in pole position,” Chadwick said. Morocco has also long held ambitions of hosting an F1 race. Still, nothing ...

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first ...

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

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

In a world where the unipolar world is being replaced by balkanised power blocs, South Africa must consolidate its regional power.

It’s either us or Argentina, says a Telegraph report dreaming about a ‘glorious British repurposing’ of the bottom of the Earth. One legal catch with this argument? The icy south has never been ...