(2) It is likely that a spill of heavy fuel oil in Antarctic waters will persist for many years and could have a major impact on any wildlife populations in the vicinity, particularly on penguins ...

The continents, specifically Antarctica, are one of the biologically sensitive locations where oil drilling could cause irreversible harm. Environmentalists have pointed out that attention should be ...

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore sedimentary basin. The fossils mean we now have amber samples from every ...