Antarctica and the Arctic are the focus of global hunger for untapped resources. As the Antarctic Treaty has grown in recent decades, some ...

China is boosting its presence in Antarctica with an eye on the icy continent’s vast untapped resources, even though it could take 35 years...

A switch from our usual pole.   No one owns Antarctica, although a few countries persist in maintaining their frozen claims to slices of ...

Further to this post on our companion blog Socialism Or Your Money Back , the BBC reports that China is building its third research station ...