In winter, when the station is cut off from resupply flights, the greenhouse turned out to be a non-native springtail. “There are native Antarctic springtail, but this turned out to be a non ...

As a gift for the 30th anniversary, a rare greenhouse was built ... China has established four stations in Antarctica -- the Great Wall in 1985, Zhongshan in 1989, Kunlun in 2009 and Taishan ...

I am more comfortable with scalpels than spades," joked Wang Zheng, 41, an orthopedist who has just returned from duty at Zhongshan, one of China's Antarctic research stations. During his year of ...

Photo taken on Feb. 27, 2014 shows a winter living compound of the Zhongshan Station, a Chinese scientific research base in Antarctica. The Zhongshan Station was established in the Larsemann Hills ...

Photo taken on Feb. 13, 2019 shows a view of Zhongshan Station, a Chinese research base in Antarctica. The Zhongshan Station, set up on Feb. 26, 1989, was the second of four scientific research bases ...

As a systems engineer at the German Aerospace Center, Bamsey was hoping the greenhouse he had helped design would arrive at Neumayer Station III, Antarctica, around Dec. 25. His gift was a bit ...

The undated photo provided by the German aerospace center (DLR) shows radish before being harvested in the EDEN-ISS greenhouse at the Neumeyer-Station III on Antarctica. The project without soil ...

which is part of the Zhongshan station, officially began its operations on December 1, to commemorate World Antarctica Day. The station is the first of its kind to have been established in ...

Last week's announcement by China that it would build ground stations in Antarctica to back its increasing number of ocean monitoring satellites, has sparked some fears among western countries who ...

becoming China's fifth research station in Antarctica and the third permanent ones, after the Changcheng and Zhongshan stations. (Photo by Wang Hainan/Xinhua) This aerial photo taken on Dec. 8, 2023 ...