Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina is reporting a very encouraging cruise season and anticipated this week a peak of calls in expected. In effect some ten cruise vessels will be calling at Ushuaia...

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has been forced to stop inbound travel to the McMurdo Base in Antarctica following a COVID-19 outbreak that has gripped nearly 10% of the staff, it was reported late Thursday,...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists will participate in the 27th session of the United Nations National Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt until 18 November 2022 at the Sharm el-S...

The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, Antarctic field season has begun, with a challenging and ambitious range of projects to be delivered at five BAS research stations and across the wider continent. Over 500 people are working i...

An all-female team from Dundee in Scotland has travelled some 8,000 miles to South Georgia to help reopen the island's South Georgia Museum at Grytviken on time for the coming summer and cruise season.

“Well, what about the Endurance,” was the seed of the challenge suggested by a good friend of maritime archeologist Mensun Bound when they met in south Kensington at Caffe Nero, for a coffee in the summer of August 2012.

Experts have determined that the cause of the recent death of 30 whales in the Valdés Peninsula, in the Argentine province of Chubut, was a harmful algal bloom also referred to as “red tide.” The findings of the dead mamma...

An Argentine military man assaulted his superior non-commissioned officer "with a blunt instrument" while he was sleeping at the Marambio Base in Antarctica.

Researchers from Australia's University of Tasmania have reportedly found the oldest marine DNA in history in the Scotia Sea in Antarctica, according to an article carried by the journal Nature Communications. The study also in...

A Chilean opposition Senator has voiced his concern over the recent presence of Argentine Ministers Jorge Taiana, Daniel Filmus, and Carla Vizotti in Antarctica, as both countries' claims over the territory overlap