South Africa is investigating after a member of a research team at an isolated station in Antarctica was accused of physical assault and sexual harassment.

As the Washington Post reports, researchers aboard the vessel Falkor (too) found an unexpected marine ecosystem beneath a ...

For most of the year, South Africa's SANAE IV research station is one of the most isolated places on Earth: cut off from the rest of the world in the Antarctic for up to 10 months at a time and ...

A message shared with South Africa's Sunday Times said the researchers were "deeply concerned" about their safety due to a colleagues behaviour.

One of the world's most vast and mysterious land masses, Antarctica is a remote and fragile environment you can generally ...

A scientist in Antarctica accused of assaulting and sexually ... quarters through hostile Antarctic winter, and face total darkness outside for six months from June. The interior temperature ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — (AP) — A member of a South African research team that is confined for more than a year at an isolated Antarctica ... whose six months of darkness begin in June.

A group of scientists trapped in a tiny base in Antarctica have sent an email pleading to be rescued after they say a member of their team threatened to kill another colleague. A South African ...

An iceberg break-off in Antarctica led to the unexpected discovery of a thriving marine ecosystem beneath the George VI Ice ...

The new expedition to the ice continent of Antarctica begins. Scientists arrive at their camp on Shackleton glacier, located ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...

Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming consequences of fossil fuel emissions. A place this remote and isolated makes a ...