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 ...

Humans do not inhabit Antarctica full-time, leaving the 5.5 million square-mile continent with no permanent population. Scientists are sent there for as long as six-months to carry out ecological ...

"Yes, people are aware that environment and politics are linked, but environmental policy is also always a form of economic or cultural policy," he emphasizes. To those who perceive Antarctica as ...

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...