Four LC-130 Skibirds are shuttling between Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station and other locations in Antarctica ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists working on a remote Antarctica research station have pleaded to be rescued after accusing one of their team of assault. The nine-person team had only just arrived for a 13-month overwinter ...

Base Camp Infrastructure on the ice at Lake Untersee, Antarctica — Dale Andersen. Field Season: January–February 2026 focused ...

The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.

Antarctica is by far the coldest area on the planet. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was recorded at Vostok, the Russian Antarctica research station in July 1983, when the temperature ...

Last week, Chilean President Gabriel Boric became the first Latin American leader to visit the South Pole. Boric traveled from Punta Arenas, his home region at the southern tip of Chile, to Chile’s ...

WASHINGTON — Three people needing medical care were airlifted out from a U.S. scientific base in Antarctica this week during a perilous rescue mission. The Royal New Zealand Air Force conducted the ...