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Antarctica: Deja Vu- Cruise ship hits iceberg again
A second Cruise Ship (Norwegian) The MS Fram, hit an Antarctic iceberg in what is a second incident in a month where Nature seems to say Back off! No one hurt as the Photos posted show the incident...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Snow Brawl: Antarctic Fight Results in Airlift
"Two men were airlifted from the US-run Amundsen-Scott South Pole station after what is described as a "drunken Christmas punch-up".""The brawl happened at the US-operated Amundsen-Scott south pole station,...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Penguins feel the heat of climate change
"ANTARCTICA'S penguin population has slumped because of global warming as melting ice has destroyed nesting sites and reduced their sources of food. The Antarctic peninsula was warming five times faster than the... Update: Antarctica: Canada Cruise Ship hits ice and sinks
Well it certainly is not like the Titanic, no Celine DIon music playing on deck while the Explorer sank, but it is more likely when the local ecology strikes back at rubbernecking intruders in Antarctic waters,...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Ship sinking in Antarctic waters
Posted at about 2am Pacific time. This is a developing story. Nothing to add yet."LONDON, England (AP) -- More than 150 people have abandoned a sinking cruise liner that struck an object in Antarctic waters, Britain's Coast Guard said. Media reports said the ship, believed to...
created by ifindtrends | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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CO2 in air grows fast: study
""Atmospheric carbon dioxide growth has increased 35 percent faster than expected since 2000," said a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), one of the bodies involved in the research. Inefficient use...Antarctic Ozone hole shrinking, outlook improving
The Australian Bureau of Meterology Antarctic ozone hole is back and although it’s almost as big as previous years, the long term outlook for a return to better ozone levels remains good. Ozone hole reappears over Antarctic: WMO
"The gap in the ozone in the upper atmosphere, at altitudes of up to 25 kilometres (15 miles), has reached a size of about 23 million square kilometres (8.9 million square miles), said World Meteorological Organisation ozone expert Geir Braathen.
In 2006, the hole covered an... U.S. to send icebreaker to N.Pole Aug. 6 after Russian mission
" World U.S. to send icebreaker to N.Pole Aug. 6 after Russian mission 16:35 | 02/ 08/ 2007 Print version WASHINGTON, August 2 (RIA Novosti) - A United States icebreaker will leave Seattle August 6 for an...Russians claim vast swaths of Arctic Ocean
"Russians claim vast swaths of Arctic Ocean Pair of ships travel through ice, reach North Pole in attempt to claim petroleum-rich Arctic sea bed; to plant flag on seabed DOUGLAS BIRCH Associated Press August 1, 2007 at 7:04 PM EDT MOSCOW — A Russian expedition aiming to... Russian ships reach North Pole
"Russian ships reach North Pole
8/1/2007, 12:24 p.m. EDT
By DOUGLAS BIRCH
The Associated Press
(AP) — V MOSCOW — An expedition aimed at strengthening Russia's claim to much of oil and gas wealth beneath the... Antarctic ozone depleted naturally, researchers say
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSo I guess that puts a fly in the ointment for the "I love to smell my own Farts" Suzukian and Al Gore Stormtroopers. But then real scientists have been saying...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Antarctic Region the Size of California Melted in '05
The global warming emergency continues to build, as new evidence of huge melting in Antarctica comes to light.""Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past with the exception of the Antarctic Peninsula, but now large regions are showing the first signs of the... Bizarre New Deep-Sea Creatures Found Off Antarctica
"A treasure trove of more than 700 new species has been uncovered in the dark depths of oceans surrounding Antarctica, researchers report. (See a photo gallery of the finds.)
Heart-shaped sea urchins, carnivorous...
created by Graphic Knight | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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Antarctic 'treasure trove' found
"An extraordinarily diverse array of marine life has been discovered in the deep, dark waters around Antarctica. Scientists have found more than 700 new species of marine creatures in seas once thought too...Top Members Today
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