TruemorsDrilling at sunless Antarctic lake
A British plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica's ice in December could show the risks of quicker sea level rise caused by climate change. Sediments on the bed of Lake Ellsworth, which is several hundred metres below sea level and buried...
Humpback whale swims a quarter of the world
" In a record-breaking journey, a female humpback whale has travelled across a quarter of the globe, a distance of at least 10,000km. The event, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, is the longest documented movement by a mammal. Its voyage was also twice... 
East Antarctic ice sheet may be losing mass
When I read the following newspaper article, it of course reminded me of yesterdays hackers story about doctored research reports. Please note the care about taking the alarm out of the published facts very... 
created by Babel-Fish | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Elephant Seals Study Antarctic Climate Change
Elephant seals are stepping up to help solve the mysteries of climate variation in Antarctica. The icy continent seems to be fracturing faster than usual, and scientists are hard-pressed to find out why: this... 
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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164 views | 14 recommendations | 0 comments
Battered Japanese Whalers Return
The Japanese whaling fleet has returned to port 305 whales short of their target. They were hounded in their Antarctic hunting grounds by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, aboard the Steve Irwin. The... 
Antarctic Ice Bridge Snaps
The ice bridge linking the 80-nautical-mile-long Wilkins Ice Shelf to the rest of Antarctica has snapped, which means that the Wilkins Ice Shelf, the size of Jamaica, can break free of the mainland. The causes of...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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360 views | 37 recommendations | 4 comments
Ice shelf about to break off Antarctic coast
A warning came today from the European Space Agency in Paris that a major ice shelf is in imminent risk of breaking away from the Antarctic continent. The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been shrinking, probably due to...
created by Barbara McPherson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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431 views | 44 recommendations | 12 comments
Antarctic 'Alps' mapped
Discovered by Russian scientists in the 1950's, the British Antarctic Survey has announced that a multi-national team from from the UK, the US, Germany, Australia, China and Japan has mapped the Gamburtsev mountain range which is similar in size to the European Alps but the... 
Melting ice pushing penguins to extinction
Climate change may push penguins to extinction with floating sea ice receding in the Antarctic. There is a 33% chance that 95% of the Adélie Land colony in Eastern Antarctica will be gone by 2100 and the... 
Visual Perceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic
This is the second installment of the Arctic and Antarctic series, which covered the Gender on Ice conference that was held at Barnard College on Nov. 21. Life in the Arctic and Antarctic is far more... 
Eco-tourists could put wildlife in peril
Eco-tourism has been a fantastic way to engage with local people that have perhaps hunted endangered species and bring them in more money by bringing in tourists to watch the animals alive rather than by...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Pole trek needs last explorer
"Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are looking for a final budding explorer to complete their ancestors' journey to the South Pole. Legend has it Sir Ernest recruited his expedition members with an advert promising "small wages", "constant danger" and a...Antarctica Condomia
Yes it's them condoms in the South Pole again. My brother is down there right now sitting in the 24 hour darkness making a ton of money, he said he will talk to me again to-morrow! Tomorrow is not until the end of winter, I telt him. McMurdo Station in the...
Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darkness
3 Words.........."Run Penguins Run"!!!"Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darknessReutersPublished: Monday, June 09, 2008WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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