BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday inaugurated its Ross Sea scientific research station, the official Xinhua news agency reported, starting operations in an outpost in a part of the Antarctic due ...

A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

CHANGSHA, China, Dec. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion", 1157.HK) has recently joined forces to construct China's fifth Antarctic research ...

It's the worst nightmare for researchers at an isolated Antarctic station: What do you do when someone wigs out and you can neither escape nor evacuate the cause of the problem? The South African ...

The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to extend the State Targeted Scientific and Technical Program of Research in the ...

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said Shaw.

The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government shutdown is reaching all the way down to the South Pole. The National Science Foundation announced Tuesday that it is putting its three Antarctic scientific ...

A medical team has rescued an expedition member after medical emergency. Aug. 9, 2012— -- A medical team has arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, after departing the U.S. McMurdo Station in ...

The most recent occasion when a commercial airliner set down on Antarctica was when Hi Fly landed an Airbus A330-300 at ...

There has been a research station at the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic since 1957, when the Royal Society led an expedition there. Halley VI, opened last February, is the first one to have the ...

Christchurch, New Zealand — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer. If those in ...