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 ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

"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 ...