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7.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Chilean Antarctic

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the Chilean Antarctic region and the southern Drake Passage on Thursday, the US Geological ...

US teen influencer pilot accused of unauthorized Antarctic landing reaches deal to leave Chile

A judge in Chile has agreed to suspend proceedings against a teenage American pilot and social media influencer who has been ...

Pilot Detained At A Chilean Military Base In Antarctica Finally Cuts Deal To Leave, All For Children's Cancer Research

American pilot Ethan Guo has finally settled his legal dispute with the Chilean government, surrounding his time being ...

Scientists sequence avian flu genome found in Antarctica

A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in ...

Pilot arrested upon landing in Chilean Antarctica says he remains stuck after case suspended

Guo's attorney said the pilot received "explicit, direct permission" to land at a Chilean base. But upon landing, Guo was ...

American Pilot, 20, Stuck Off Antarctica Says It’s ‘Isolating and Lonely’

Ethan Guo, a content creator, said that he has been effectively trapped at a Chilean base since June. The authorities had ...

American Influencer Stranded in Antarctica since June

Ethan Guo, a 20-year-old content creator and aviator, has been unable to leave King George Island since he illegally landed ...

Chile wants Ethan Guo out of Antarctica. He says he's 'stuck' there

As Mr Guo began to lose airspeed, he set course for Antarctica — what he said was the closest place to land without traversing the worst of airspace above mountain ranges. Now hundreds of kilometres ...

US teen influencer has been stranded in the Chilean Antarctic since landing without permission

SANTIAGO, Chile — What was intended as a fundraising mission for cancer research has become a nightmare for American teen ...
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Surging tourism polluting Antarctica, scientists warn

SANTIAGO, Chile - Soaring numbers of tourists and expanding research projects are increasingly polluting Antarctica, scientists warned Wednesday, a fresh blow for one of Earth’s most pristine ...