The recent opening of China’s Qinling base, its third permanent Antarctic station, has worried some Australian and American observers. Their concerns suggest it may be time for Australia to delineate ...

He said China continues to build more Antarctic research bases because it views the icy continent as part of the “strategic frontiers.” “Since it is an area that is further from China’s ...

The site – a research station China has hailed as a means to expand its scientific investigation in the Antarctic – could also be used to enhance the country’s intelligence collection ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

The coming months will likely see significant, continued progress on the station’s construction during the milder Antarctic summer. In November 2024, China launched its 41st Antarctica expedition, ...

China's latest Antarctic expedition achieved multiple firsts, including launching active-source seismic exploration in the inland regions for the first time, which filled a gap in the country's ...

The breakthrough means China has become the first country to achieve the large-scale operation of a clean energy system under extreme Antarctic conditions. Lead scientist Sun Hongbin, 56 ...

China has now submitted a draft environmental evaluation to the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty for the construction and operation of a new summer research station at Marie Byrd Land.

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics, crime and ...