China and Russia announced in March 2025 separate but coordinated plans to strengthen and expand their presence in Antarctica. That same month, the United States announced cuts to funding to operate ...

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time in history, a crew of four people are getting to see Earth's North and ...

That’s McMurdo Station, home every Antarctic summer ... especially given their primary goal of reaching the South Pole. Even in the Antarctic summer, their first season of explorations had ...

Fresh water for American scientists at the US South Pole station is just one of the life-saving projects at risk, former US Antarctic policy head William Muntean told Daily Maverick at the weekend.

For most of the year, South Africa's SANAE IV research station is one of the most isolated places on Earth: cut off from the rest of the world in the Antarctic for up to 10 months at a time and ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote and extreme places.

Boric arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Friday ... meant to reinforce Chile's claim to sovereignty in part of Antarctica. Chile's Minister of Environment Maisa Rojas posted a ...

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...

As Wired reports, even scientists at the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which ... days of the universe with the help of the South Pole Telescope. Scientists are now worried that the ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

When news emerged this week that a member of a South African research team at one of ... Amundsen-Scott station – the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole. It was a visit Boric ...