Historic remnants of Antarctic expeditions could pose urgent threats as warming temperatures accelerate new risks to both ...

Junior Foreign Minister David Rutley said that Russia has given a commitment to abide by the Antarctic Treaty. In 1976, the treaty nations signatories decided to impose a moratorium on the ...

ATCM issued the “Santiago Declaration on the Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the signing of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty” “ASOC supports the swift designation ...

New research reveals a concerning shift in Antarctic Treaty decision-making in the face of rising environmental and ...

While it is unclear what might happen after 2048, when the Antarctic Treaty could be modified, the burning question is whether Russia would actually challenge the Treaty now and begin commercial ...

Deception Island, a hauntingly beautiful Antarctic volcano, draws dark tourists with its abandoned whaling stations and eerie ...

The first results of the pioneering scientific research project launched earlier this year have catalogued microplastic ...

The new squadron is part of a larger attempt to expand China's presence in the Antarctic.

Antarctic Treaty nations agree to a plan to preserve one of the world's greatest shipwrecks. Wreck hunters find the ship on which famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.

Thanks to the ongoing success of the Antarctic Treaty, many countries are represented on the frozen continent across a handful of semi-permanent research settlements. At the South Pole ...

For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...