Built in December 1957, amid the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russia’s Vostok Research Station is located almost at the very center of mainland Antarctica. Its location is known for extreme ...

These include the Russian Vostok station and the Dome A weather station several miles away. Each has relatively low temperatures because it is on land 10,000 feet above sea level, largely because ...

The coldest place on Earth is a bone-chilling research station where temperatures have plummeted to a teeth-chattering low of -89C, with only 30 people living there. While the planet's hottest ...

"I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week." The team's disappearance could not come at a worse time: They are about 40 feet from their goal of reaching the body of ...

Here’s how it works. During the southern hemisphere winter of 1983, temperatures at Russia's Vostok research station in Antarctica plunged to a frighteningly cold minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit ...

It has been isolated from the rest of the world for millions of years. Image caption, The remote Vostok Station was built in 1956. However, it was only in the 1970s when, with help of an airborne ...

The Russians, who run the Vostok research station at the surface, said their plan was for the drill to break through the ice into the hidden lake, and automatically withdraw so as not to ...

The ice samples were drilled at Vostok Station under the terms of a US, French and Russian scientific collaboration. The drill stopped about 100 metres (330 feet) above the water to avoid ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that his country’s southernmost Vostok research station in Antarctica is “one of the most modern and well-equipped” in the continent ...

At Vostok Station in Antarctica, July means miserably low temperatures, almost perpetual darkness and all the other inconveniences of an Antarctic winter. But this winter brought Russian ...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, June 2024 was the warmest June on record, with an average global temperature of 62°F (16.66°C), which is 1.2°F (0.67°C ...