This means that the German research vessel Polarstern, or its successor which is in the drawing board and should be completed by 2015, could be deployed the whole year in Antarctica.

Since 1991 the German Antarctic Station GARS O’Higgins has been operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). The station is ...

New Zealand signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute in an effort to foster cooperation in the South Pole. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met with ...

Encased in a 4 kilometre thick layer of ice is a unique archive of our planet over the last million of years: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images ...