Global warming could expose an ice-free area in Antarctica the size of the US state of Pennsylvania by 2300, opening up new ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...

Antarctica is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, yet no one owns it. But that doesn’t mean it’s free for the taking. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty forbids claiming land there, but 7 ...

After decades of tranquility, the status quo in Antarctica is unraveling. Today, the continent is balancing on the edge of a meltdown—both literal and figurative. Not only is climate change ...

Last week, Chilean President Gabriel Boric became the first Latin American leader to visit the South Pole. Boric traveled from Punta Arenas, his home region at the southern tip of Chile, to Chile’s ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets lies an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil and gas—a discovery that has transformed the frozen continent from a symbol of scientific cooperation into a ...

China opened its fifth station in Antarctica on February 7, 2024. The new Qinling station, located on Inexpressible Island in the Ross Sea, joins the existing Great Wall (Antarctic Peninsula), ...

Suggested Citation: "2 The National Antarctic Program." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Future Directions for Southern Ocean and Antarctic Nearshore and Coastal ...