But much like its ice sheet, the system governing Antarctica is in trouble as global warming opens up the possibility of mining virgin resources. Map ... between a free-for-all land grab, or ...

Such a place exists in Antarctica, the Earth’s southernmost ... an international ban on exploiting the region’s resources. Map: The Economist Behind these tensions is a new scramble for ...

The Southern Ocean, which girds the planet in the latitudes above Antarctica and below the other continents ... I started with the man who put it on the map. Hrvoje Lukatela, a Croatian-born engineer, ...

It's the last week of November, and there's plenty to do in Canberra. As the countdown to Christmas begins, here's how to ...

This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...

Antarctica's melting ice could raise sea levels significantly. Scientists urge urgent greenhouse gas reductions globally.

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

Antarctica changed my life, and it might just change yours too. Mark Connell/500px Prime//Getty Images Beautiful Lemaire Channel surrounded by mountains seen at sunrise. I wanted to visit all ...

Travelers sailing to Antarctica with HX (formerly Hurtigruten Expeditions) can take a new online course about the White Continent—and earn an official certificate from the University of Tasmania in ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a lush jungle. The idea that Antarctica once looked like an entirely ...