It’s either us or Argentina, says a Telegraph report dreaming about a ‘glorious British repurposing’ of the bottom of the Earth. One legal catch with this argument? The icy south has never been ...

But let’s teleport ourselves back to 1959 and get hypothetical. If Antarctica had been more accessible then, and mining tech sufficiently developed, would this wilderness and its irreplaceable ...

Human beings typically do our worst environmental damage in the places we live and work—clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains. Antarctica, however, was more or less out of reach.