Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...

Who Owns Antarctica? 511 Billion Barrels of oil are hidden under the ice, potentially sparking an unsettling race to influence the future of the last place on earth you can't visit. In this video, I ...

Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international anchor, says NATO wanted to make sure of a successful summit in The Hague and focused it on U.S. President Donald Trump's defence spending goal.

For 65 years, an international treaty forged at the height of the Cold War has governed Antarctica. But with rising geopolitical tensions, consensus is increasingly hard to find."Up until just a few ...

Australia has significant national interests in Antarctica. Australia was one of the 12 founding countries of the Antarctic Treaty 1959, establishing the Antarctic Treaty System which has governed the ...

Enhancing SA’s scientific standing Since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, scientists have been conducting substantial research activity on the continent, mainly studying the geomorphology ...

The Antarctic Treaty Parties govern Antarctica and the region below 60° south latitude, coordinate international research activities in the region, and provide scientific advice to guide legislation.

When President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Türkiye's ambition to play a role in shaping the future of Antarctica in 2019, the country was only taking its almost first steps on the frozen continent.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and now Donald Trump’s “increased deference to Moscow,” means that “consensus among the treaty members is becoming harder to forge,” Ormiston wrote in a March 8 ...

That map is then used for charting or to help geologists understand what the sea floor is made of and what it looks like. Wilcox said only about 25 per cent of the world's ocean floor is mapped.