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Marcel Schütz
The search for the fifth recipient of the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions has begun. The award is presented each year on the birthday of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and aims to highlight the global importance of these sensitive regions.
Heiner Kubny
On February 13, 1956, the flag of the USSR was raised at the first Soviet Antarctic station, Mirny.
The unauthorized landing of 19-year-old pilot Ethan Guo on King George Island has sparked criticism and legal consequences in Antarctica.
In the heart of the coldest continent on Earth lies one of the planet’s most extreme landscapes.
As the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reports, scientists have developed a novel AI system that can, for the first time, automatically track the entire life cycle of icebergs.
When massive icebergs break off from glacier fronts in Antarctica, they do not only generate visible waves at the surface.
An international research team from the United Kingdom and South Korea has reached one of the most remote and least explored areas of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
Rosamaria Kubny
There is good news from environmental research: the pollution of the oceans with so-called PFAS chemicals appears to be declining.
More than 200 different plant species have been successfully cultivated over the past five years at the coldest place on Earth.
William Muntean
Three recent actions should cool speculation that the United States would significantly change its approach towards Antarctica.
