Concerns are being raised that Russia is prospecting parts of Antarctica for oil and gas and surveying the continent for military purposes amid warnings Moscow could breach a long-standing treaty ...

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 ...

Vernadsky research base, the Ukrainian Antarctic station at Marina Point on Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Antarctica. (Photo by: Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war ...

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 ...

IMAGINE A LAND untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome—a veritable Shangri-La. Such a place exists in Antarctica, the Earth’s southernmost region. Home to 40m ...