A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

The U.S. conducted its first inspection of a Chinese Antarctic station in six years to verify it was being peacefully used.

There has been a research station at the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic since 1957, when the Royal Society led an expedition there. Halley VI, opened last February, is the first one to have the ...

Two Emirati scientists have established two research stations in Antarctica -- one for weather monitoring and another for seismological research. The remarkable feat marks the first time the UAE and ...

Hugh Broughton Architects’ £100m research building at the UK’s main base in Antarctica has officially opened after a six-year ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa’s SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a colleague of physical assault. We research Antarctic governance and crime in ...

Welcome to a bumper edition of our postcard update!Rothera Research Station has been a hive of activity since our last postcard with science and ...

Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains ...

While on the island, Fyodor Konyukhov will conduct scientific studies and experiments to determine the level of air pollution and the amount of microplastics in the coastal waters of the Antarctic ...