As the ice sheets of Antarctica continue to melt, experts believe that the lessening snow is revealing a mysterious truth about the South Pole. Satellite images from NASA show a possible human ...

This seems like an easy question to tackle. If you’re wondering “Is Antarctica real?” it undoubtedly is. It’s a continent that spans the Earth’s South Pole and is the fifth-largest on ...

Will Antarctica ever support the kinds of permanent human settlements seen elsewhere on Earth? While a select crowd of invasive plant and animal species are already moving to a warming Antarctica ...

Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it.

There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in.

Given the harsh realities of building on the continent, aesthetics and architectural creativity have remained an afterthought in Antarctic settlements up until recent years. Today, however ...

Marlon Clark There are no permanent settlements in Antarctica but a handful of research stations that are inhabited by visiting researchers and staff (Credit: Marlon Clark) In Antarctica during ...

All samples from near human settlements showed black carbon levels greatly above the typical Antarctic background levels, a clear sign of human emissions. Elevated levels of black carbon will ...

French for Our Lady of the Winds, the chapel is located in Port-aux-Français, the capital settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, territory of the French Southern and Antarctic lands in the south ...

according to many scientists drawn to Antarctica. Deception Island's most recent eruption was in 1970. Now, tourists and scientists visit the remains of settlements at Whalers Bay. (Jill English ...