The Reality worse then the prognosis. Latest IPCC report.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The Reality is now worse then the prognosis. Climate Change Prognosis have been to Optimistic in light of latest reports indicating that the predicted global temperature changes of between 1.1C...

The Revenge of GAIA, Humanity under Attack.

By, Uwe Paschen. The Revenge of Gaia, The Earth is Fighting back. Humanity is now under attack after decades, even centuries of abusing the Earth and it's balance. This is what James Lovelock believes and writes...

Fire storms over Antarctica

Bushfire aftermath: smoke trapped over Antarctica~According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), smoke from the February Black Saturday bushfires, across the north east of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, Australia, have been floating over Antarctica since early...

Australian Scientists: Antarctic Ice is Growing

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, ice thickness in eastern Antarctica is actually increasing. This presents a more complex portrait of a continent, beyond just "melting" or "thickening". It would appear to be a...

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...

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...

Footloose on South Georgia Island

In March of this year Mark Hannaford was lucky enough to get a fantastic photographic project down to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands with the Scott Polar Research Institute (http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk...

Antarctica - the last resort?

As the glacial ice melts a new land of new opportunities comes into view while changing the focus as to past Environmental damage back home. Should a Global preservation order be sign posted there in...

Doomsday vault is filling up.

The Svalbard vault is inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island, is slowly being filled. Originally devised as a solution to world famine and now labeled as a "backup", part financed by the world bank. Just in...

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...

Over 235 Species Living in Both North and South Poles

More than 235 species have been found to live in the waters of both the North and South Poles. We're not just talking your typical migratory species (like the opposite of going to Florida), but tiny sea creatures,...

Sub to probe shifting Antarctic glacier

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile - A yellow, remote-controlled submarine will dive under an ice shelf in Antarctica to seek clues to world ocean level rises in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth. The 22-foot-long...

Lorenzo Gariano Completes Seven Summits

Lorenzo Gariano has just summited Vinson Massiv on Antarctica, thus completing the Seven Summits challenge - climbing the highest mountain on each of the world's continents - and making him only the second Italian...

'Man vs. Wild' Host Injured in Antarctic Adventure

Bear Grylls has been injured in Antarctica during a charity expedition and will return to the UK to seek medical attention.Grylls is the host of the popular adventure show 'Man vs. Wild' on the Discovery...

Cruise Ship Carrying 122 Adrift In Antarctica

MSNBC is reporting that a cruise ship that had 122 people aboard has run agound in Antartica. The ship, Ushuaia, has started to take on water and leak fuel after it ran aground in Wilhelmina Bay, a pensula that...

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