Nearly four years after a charity formed in Guelph with the goal of building a new large-scale science centre in Ontario, visions of what the location could look like and where it could be built ...

The species is endemic to Antarctica but it is estimated three quarters of their icy breeding colonies are threatened by rising temperatures. The arrival of an emperor penguin in Denmark on ...

In the Antarctic, with the onset of spring, the pace of seasonal sea ice loss has increased. Plot and compare different years and ranges. Obtain daily sea ice extent values, ranges, and median values ...

“I think this is my 25th expedition to Antarctica. Going to Antarctica is very addictive,” said the explorer. “It’s something that once you’ve seen it, you’ve got this drive to always ...

The ozone-depleted region over Antarctica averaged nearly 20 million square kilometers (8 million square miles) this year, covering an area almost three times the size of the contiguous United States.

As Antarctic krill face unprecedented challenges in the Southern Ocean, a new project has been launched to better understand these important invertebrates. Rising temperatures are putting the ...

The gradual improvement seen in the past two decades shows that international efforts to curb ozone-destroying chemicals are working. On September 28, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum ...

The International Antarctic Centre at Christchurch Airport has been bought by the family that owns the local Willowbank wildlife reserve. Willowbank directors and siblings Mark and Kirsty Willis will ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold ...

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Such a place exists in Antarctica, the Earth’s southernmost region. Home to 40m penguins and a mere 1,000 people, the continent is owned by no one.

Once considered remote and isolated, the Arctic region is now part of the global political, social, economic, security, and geopolitical landscape—this reality requires research and policy analysis ...