ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the ...

But let’s teleport ourselves back to 1959 and get hypothetical. If Antarctica had been more accessible then, and mining tech sufficiently developed, would this wilderness and its irreplaceable ...

Though oil and gas exploration and mining have been banned on Antarctica by treaty, Russia appears interested in exploring extractive industries there so it can take advantage should the ...

The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...

Human beings typically do our worst environmental damage in the places we live and work—clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains. Antarctica, however, was more or less out of reach.

She was also able to visit the Chile headquarters of Anglo American, a British multinational mining company ... tackle climate change “especially in Antarctica, is central to our relationship”.