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 ...
Amid geopolitical shifts and decreasing sea ice 1, parties to the Antarctic Treaty are moving to regulate tourism on the continent. The 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in Kerala in ...
Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ...
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 ...
December 1 marks Antarctica Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. For over 60 years, Earth’s most remote continent and surrounding seas have served as the site for deep ...
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), ...
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