WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand >> The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the ...

The Antarctic continent is a frozen landscape of snow and sleet, but a new map from NASA exposes what the region would look like if all the ice were to disappear.

Massive Antarctica marine reserve OK’d by 24 countries, EU. The agreement covers an area about twice the size of Texas in the Ross Sea.

The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica’s waters reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent.