Exclusive: For Lodrick Hlungwane, who spent three years at the isolated base, a recent crisis there was disturbing—but not ...
Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa's SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a ...
Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.
One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.
Reports of assault were first reported last weekend by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, which claimed to have seen a ...
The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...
There are about 10,000 scientists stationed in Antarctica during the summer but, in the harsh winter, that number drops to ...
A tense situation among members of an isolated base in Antarctica could foretell conflicts among astronauts on a long ...
Two helicopters took off from a base in Russia's far northern archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya and made it all the way to the ...
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