Russian research ships have been firing sound waves at the seafloor in the Weddell Sea, a remote stretch of water off ...

With the conflicts in Europe and the Greater Middle East seemingly frozen, the geopolitics of the world’s polar regions continue to thaw. What few eyes are fixated on the geopolitics of the polar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Delegations ...

The annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations has failed to reach consensus to designate the endangered emperor penguin as a "Specially Protected Species".

International delegates have gathered this week to decide the fate of Antarctica’s marine environment amid escalating fears that Russia could blow conservation efforts off course. The 27 members of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Russia and China have again blocked plans supported by the European Union, the United States and 23 other nations to protect three vast stretches of ocean around ...

MINSK, 8 August (BelTA) – Belarusian and Russian polar explorers will carry out a joint research project during the 11th Belarusian Antarctic expedition in 2018-2019, Alexander Klepikov, head of the ...

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 ...