Ask people to name the coldest country in the world, and the answer almost instinctively given is Antarctica. The confusion is understandable. Antarctica holds the record for the lowest temperature ...

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a nature ...

Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ...