A document linked to the arrest of a scientist has raised questions about whether Russia has long-term ambitions to exploit ...

Russian occupation forces in temporarily occupied Crimea have detained Leonid Pshenychnov, a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine ...

Hidden on the frozen edge of Ross Island, McMurdo Station is the largest and most important outpost in Antarctica. Home to up ...

The lifeboat at the world’s end – an icy, unhabitated island only few have seen Far out in tFar out in the subantarctic, well ...

Captain Etienne Garcia looks back at his part in charting Antarctica, the edge of the Earth, and his onging responsibility to ...

A funding bid to establish a polar security research program has been knocked back, despite the changing geopolitical dynamics in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

Antarctica’s ice, ocean, and ecosystems are approaching tipping points that could trigger irreversible global impacts.

In 2018, Chile and Argentina proposed the creation of a marine protected area on the Antarctic Peninsula to safeguard key ...

To protect the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from melting, a gigantic underwater curtain has been proposed to be installed on the Antarctic seabed. However, the political ramifications of such a ...

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 ...

The scientific debate around the installation of a massive underwater curtain to protect Antarctic ice sheets from melting lacks its vital political perspective. A research team argues that the ...