Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a ...

The man got taken away and the FBI was called in.” Humans do not inhabit Antarctica full-time, leaving the 5.5 million square-mile continent with no permanent population. Scientists are sent ...

The new map of Antarctica's topography beneath the ice gives scientists a better look at how the continent might respond to global warming. Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed ...

White Desert, a winner in Travel + Leisure's 2025 Global Vision Awards, just launched a new foundation focused on combatting climate change on the White Continent. The allure of Antarctica ...

Kim Young-mi on Nov. 8 departed Hercules Inlet on the western coast of Antarctica and arrived at Leverett Glacier on Jan. 17, covering 1,786 km in 69 days, eight hours and 31 minutes in her solo ski ...

In my last column, I wrote about whether Antarctica should be granted legal personhood. Whether, in a world that only listens to those with (legal) standing, giving the continent a voice might be ...

work and do science on our southernmost continent. Antarctic Extremes is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...

However, this suggestion did lead to the establishment of two Marine Protected Areas around the Antarctic continent – at ... stations in the middle of the desert? "There are inspections ...

Researcher at the Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center David Mikolajczyk said the first few AWS were deployed in 1980. Since then, around 60 different stations across the continent have ...

In our new research, we analysed a century of data on how many species have been introduced to the icy continent and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands. Though there’s little human presence here ...

Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation between key players. So what is at stake in the world's southernmost region?