At an extremely remote Antarctic outpost, scientists have unearthed a pristine sample of our planet's history. It's an ice core 2,800 meters, or some 1.7 miles, long. But it's not just the length ...

Why would anyone choose to live in Antarctica? McMurdo Station is one of the most extreme human settlements, yet it plays a ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS ... that wouldn't be possible with scientists alone. Maintaining an outpost on the world's coldest, driest, windiest, and most remote continent requires a ...

Australia has launched an urgent operation to rescue a researcher with a "developing medical condition" from the remote Casey outpost in Antarctica. The icebreaker RSV Nuyina left from Tasmania ...

For a polar outpost so solid and austere ... To travelers arriving from the south, voyaging up from the Antarctic Peninsula, the island seems almost tropically lush. (In Antarctica there are ...

Drilling to retrieve a million-year-old ice core containing critical intel about the planet's climate has begun in earnest at a remote Antarctic outpost.

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