Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded ...

Antarctica holds an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil beneath its ice, raising questions about ownership and global power. This video explores its colonial claims, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Antarctic Treaty states should ‘question whether they could safely invite representatives of Russia to future meetings should ...

From a century of seabird breeding records in Antarctica to global satellite tracks of migratory flocks, two new studies reveal patterns within one of the world’s most threatened groups of birds. By ...

KOCHI, (IANS) – The Ministry of Earth Sciences, through the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, will host the 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and the 26th Meeting of the Committee ...

BBC Inside Science Antarctica's volcanoes, science book prize nominee - Mark O'Connell, US solar eclipse and 40 years of NASA's Voyager mission Voyager's groundbreaking 40 year mi ...

With the conflicts in Europe and the Greater Middle East seemingly frozen, the geopolitics of the world’s polar regions continue to thaw. What few eyes are fixated on the geopolitics of the polar ...

In the face of growing global pressures, a new report from Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF), including University of Adelaide researchers, highlights the opportunity to strengthen and ...

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), an advocacy group focused on the world’s coldest and most remote region, has received the 2025 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. The 1 million euro ...