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 war that established it as a demilitarised ...
Four decades ago, scientists sounded the alarm after discovering a growing 'hole' in the ozone above Antarctica ... to the drafting of an international treaty that aimed to phase out the ...
However, this discovery raises numerous questions, as the Antarctic Treaty prohibits any economic exploitation of the continent until 2048. If the reserve proves extractable, it could lead to ...
Nevertheless it has now emerged from the Foreign and Development Office that UK and Chile, as original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty agreed on a Letter of Intent on Antarctic cooperation ...
Mega-iceberg from Antarctica on collision course with South Georgia: Harbinger of things to come? Date: February 24, 2025 Source: Utrecht University Summary: It is no strange sight to see icebergs ...
marking the 37th anniversary of Uruguay's entry as a consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty System. As per that agreement dated Oct. 7, 1985, Uruguay has a say in the management and ...
Territory, here, doesn't mean exclusive rights. In 1959, 12 nations with a scientific interest in the ice continent signed the Antarctic Treaty. This treaty was an agreement that Antarctica—the ...
The live-fire exercises were a demonstration of China’s growing sea power in Australia and New Zealand’s immediate periphery ...
It wasn’t until the 16th century, as explorers started sailing around the world, that people realized there was no such supercontinent—and not until the 19th century was Antarctica’s ...
A few months of temperatures above this average do not mean that the obligations of the Paris Agreement have already been broken, since the treaty refers ... In the Antarctic, sea ice hit its ...
SYDNEY, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Thursday they would begin talks on a full defence treaty between the two countries. Australia and Papua New Guinea already have a ...
Video / NZ Herald A first-of-its-kind study suggests the worsening melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet could directly drive shifts in New Zealand’s local climate patterns. The new study ...