World records are what bring people to Antarctica. When Colin O’Brady claimed an ‘Impossible First’ skiing solo across Antarctica, it exposed cracks in the club-like polar explorer community. Thomas Bywater looks into what a world first mean to polar explorers - and how far would they go to chase...

While Kiwis were protesting for a nuclear-free Pacific, 300 tons of radioactive soil were sailing through New Zealand waters. Thomas Bywater discusses the story of ‘Nukey Poo’, Antarctica’s problematic power plant and New Zealand’s dirty nuclear secret. With thanks to Peter Breen, Ron Regan, the...

Antarctica is the only continent without police, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any crime. When it was discovered in 2000 an Antarctic researcher had been poisoned, it was too late - seven months had passed his colleagues were long gone. Thomas Bywater explores if Rodney Marks was Antarctica's...