This story appears in the November 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The western side of the Antarctic Peninsula has been experiencing some of the fastest warming winters on the planet ...

The new protection area, proposed in 2018 by commission members Chile and Argentina, would cover the western Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of the southernmost continent. The peninsula ...

Between 1986 and 2021, the area of vegetated land on the Antarctic Peninsula increased from 0.86 to 11.95 square kilometers (0.33 to 4.61 square miles), according to a study published earlier this ...