Powerful empires throughout history have risen by mastering warfare, governance, trade, and culture, leaving legacies that ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets lies an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil and gas—a discovery that has transformed ...

The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades, NASA and NOAA officials say.

Russia’s recent arrest of Ukrainian scientist Leonid Pshenichnov casts a dark shadow over Russia’s engagement in the Antarctic Treaty System. Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia made a statement about ...

The frozen continent, and the treaty that protects it, have been in the news frequently of late – but for all the wrong reasons, argues ecologist and conservation biologist Professor Steven L Chown.

The U.S. lacks sufficient capability at the Earth’s poles, with only a handful of operational icebreakers, including the two currently in the Arctic. President Trump has focused on the ICE Pact to ...

Foreword / Prince Albert II of Monaco -- Preface / Paul Arthur Berkman [and others] -- Science as a tool of diplomacy. Building the international legal framework for Antarctica / Marie Jacobsson -- ...

Grace O’Sullivan’s personal voyage to save the planet did not end when the French secret service blew two holes in the hull of the Rainbow Warrior and sank it in Auckland Harbour on July 10th, 1985, ...

1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in ...

All scientist Erin Pettit could see when she looked at the satellite photos of the ice shelf in front of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica was the giant crack that stretched across most of the ...

This next story takes us to Australia, to one of the Australian states - Victoria. That state has negotiated the country's first treaty with its Indigenous peoples. Kristina Kukolja reports. KRISTINA ...

While Washington has acted to eventually address icebreaker shortcomings in the Arctic, it has not taken similar steps to ...