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 ...
Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Lake Vanda in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry ...
Foreword / Prince Albert II of Monaco -- Preface / Paul Arthur Berkman [and others] -- Science as a tool of diplomacy. Building the international legal framework for Antarctica / Marie Jacobsson -- ...
The Antarctic Treaty, signed at the height of the Cold War in 1959, stipulated that the southern continent could not be used for military purposes, but it encouraged scientific research. In the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig Hooper evaluates security threats and proposes solutions. For 60 years, the Antarctic Treaty System maintained stability at ...
Some countries, most frequently China or Russia, use the “politicization of science” to block new conservation measures in the Southern Ocean, observers say. An international meeting dedicated to the ...
Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The Antarctic Treaty is a ...
American mountaineer Evan Miller walks towards the crater rim of Mount Erebus, the Earth's southernmost active volcano. Antarctica truly is like nowhere else on Earth. Almost entirely covered in ice, ...
200 years of exploring Antarctica — the world’s coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent
Antarctica is the remotest part of the world, but it is a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change. It was officially discovered 200 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1820, ...
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