A long awaited breakthrough has been made with a decision to establish the first secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty System in Argentina, 40 years after the treaty came into force. A blocking veto

Climate change kills emperor penguins in the Antarctic

A device to trace neutrinos

A team of researchers from the us and New Zealand has found penguin chicks in the Antarctic covered in oil. It has completed an environmental survey of a former Antarctic research station at Cape

First evidence of Antarctic melting emerges

Though disposing of radioactive waste as well as military activity in and around Antarctica is banned, the continent is not free from

NASA discovers the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica. A wake up call for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

the ozone layer over Antarctica has depleted severely, according to the World Meteorological Organisation ( wmo ), a un agency. "The latest satellite observations in the sunlight

Sponges found in the chilly waters of Antarctica are infested with algae that scrounge off them during the dark polar winter. Algae often live inside the cells of other animals, such as reef-building

Tiny marine life could be safe from harmful effects of ozone depletion