Antarctica

If further proof was needed of the thermal insulation and physical qualities of Wicona’s aluminium windows and doors, this is it. A new research station in Antarctica will be equipped with win ...  

Warm ocean currents are projected to melt the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica opening instabilities in the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) which will impact global sea level rise. Climate change is waking up the sleeping giant of Antarctica.  

The final five include Alexander Kumar, the team doctor, who is currently working for the European Space Agency in Antarctica; Ian Prickett, a construction worker who worked in Antarctica building the new Halley Base 6; Stewart Stirling, a police officer ...  

Preparations for the conference have included Friday night Skype meetings with the other group members as they work on their proposal for sustainability for the Arctic and Antarctica and for making Antarctica carbon neutral, all while Ms. Graham was ...  

For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the extreme Antarctic wind. The ice-covered waters of Antarctica are actually bursting with life. Magnificent whales, orcas, seals, fish and soaring seabirds come here to forage on krill-rich waters. Below the icy ocean...  

The cello player and clarinettist will both be drawing on the sights and sounds they experienced when visiting Antarctica earlier this year. "The wind section represents penguins darting through the water really well. It's a very effective use of music ...  

Midshipman Daniel Gillis, a former resident of Stevens Point, returned recently from Operation Deep Freeze, the annual resupply mission to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Gillis attends the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., where ...  

Sightings of killer whales have become less common in Antarctica's Ross Sea over the last decade. Now, researchers are blaming a fishery that is catching the whales' main source of food. While studying penguins in Antarctica, the scientists kept track of ...  

GARDEN VALLEY -- During KTVB's Live Tour 2012 stop in Garden Valley, Dee Sarton spent some time with an Idaho woman who has led a fascinating life working in Antarctica over three decades. Julia Uberuaga, known as 'Jules' to her friends, is a heavy ...  

"Using satellites, researchers counted Antarctica's emperor penguins at 46 colonies like this one near the Halley Research Station, finding numbers twice as high as previously thought." Source of caption and photo: online version of the WSJ article quoted and...  

Late October and November is the beginning of summer in Antarctica, revealing the White Continent at its most pristine and photogenic state. For more information on Antarctica travel, contact Adventure Life at http://www.adventure-life.com. Late October ...  

An expanded Executive Committee and reorganized Secretariat, new rules of procedure for compliance and dispute resolution issues, and a Marine Committee Safety Advisory were just some of the actions and decisions adopted by Members at the 23rd ...  

A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese Kunlun Station at Dome Argus, the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau.  

The prospect of finding oil in Antarctica was discussed at an event in Aberdeen, Scotland last week. Professor David Macdonald from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Geosciences examined the fact and fiction surrounding claims that oil ...  

First look at the magma conduits that weave through and feed into the lava lake atop Mount Erebus, Antarctica's biggest volcano. In this 3D view, it becomes clear that the mountain's insides house a complex network of plumbing for the molten rock.  

IT took eight hours lying on the cold, hard ice in Antarctica to get the perfect shot ... The image is one of the latest 10 finalists in Escape's Your Holiday photo competition. Ms Hayley, 50, from Kununurra, took more than 10,000 photographs during ...  

Lake Bonney in Antarctica is perennially covered in ice. It is exposed to severe environmental stresses, including minimal nutrients, low temperatures, extreme shade, and, during the winter, 24-hour darkness. But, for the single-celled organisms that live there, the lake is home. To study them, Dr. Rachel Morgan-Kiss from the University of Miami, Ohio, and her team went to Antarctica to sample the ice-covered lake. The article describing her...  

Living in Antarctica is not easy. There's the environment ... I did feel quite alone in that, if I'm honest.' Johnson needs to travel south every few years to collect rock samples, but if Phoebe hadn't coped with their time apart, she was contemplating ...  

Paris (AFP) April 5, 2012 A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat satellite show that the so-called Larsen B ice shelf decreased from 11,512 square kilometres (4,373 square miles) in 1995, an area about the size of the Gulf state of Qatar, to only 1,670 sq km (634 mile  

New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica. Comparing detailed measurements taken during the Australian Antarctic program's 2012 Southern Ocean marine science voyage to historical data dating back to 1970, scientists estimate there has been as much as a 60 per cent reduction in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water...  

Sofia. The next expedition to Antarctica will focus on scientific projects; the international scientific projects with Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Argentina, Brazil and Chile will continue, professor Hristo Pimpirev, director of the Bulgarian ...  

It's now one hundred years since Sir Douglas Mawson led the first Australasian Antarctic ... Trevor Chappell discussed this with Gabrielle Walker, author of 'Antarctica, An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent'. Now you can listen ...  

The 34-year-old from Birchington-on-Sea completed the 1,000 mile challenge in 59 days, pulling her supplies in two sledges weighing 187lbs (85kg) while enduring temperatures of -22F (-30C), bad weather, and a broken lighter that left her with just 46 ...  

Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so …  

By Chris WickhamLONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels.The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen ice loss from global warming and much of the observation of melting has focused on the western side of the continent around the Amundsen Sea. [More...  

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. has been cleared to begin a $2 billion contract to support the National Science Foundation's Antarctica operations, Washington Technology reported. The company will provide support infrastructure to the U.S. Antarctic Program, which conducts research at the South Pole.  

During the first week of May, the small crew left behind at an Antarctica research station bid farewell to the sun as it set for the last time for the season, plunging the frigid continent into the permanent midnight of winter. The next sunrise will come ...  

Researchers from the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center have co-authored new research with partners from the British Antarctic Survey that shows there are twice as many emperor penguins in the Antarctic than scientists previously thought -- using satellite technology.  

What's it like to stare into the roiling mouth of an active volcano? Pretty darn cool, say scientists who work at Antarctica's Mount Erebus, home of one of Earth's only long-lived lava lakes. But it's what's happening underneath that glowing ...  

As holidaymakers continue to feel the pinch, one man has shared the story of how he left his home in Berlin and travelled 25,000 miles to Antarctica - without taking any money. Michael Wigge has published a book about his thrifty odyssey - the wordily ...  

Travel Trends to Antarctica. Awesome Antarctica, it isn't your own standard trip to the actual seaside. This particular wonderland is very the experience; for many it's really a long term goal to achieve the actual 7th Region.  

Dr Strugnell is the lead author of a new international study that reveals how the genes of a fairly sedentary Antarctic octopus provide a clue to the risk of sea-level rise if world temperatures keep climbing. Published in the journal Molecular ...  

Powering the iPad with solar energy in sun-starved Antarctica is a breeze. But as Paras Loomba - a 26-year-old engineer from Ferozepur who was the 'Mr Fix It' in this year's 70-member International Antarctic Expedition - would tell you, using ...  

Christchurch's Hagley Park will be transformed into an ice station in September as the city gears up to host a month-long show highlighting the city's links with Antarctica. New Zealand IceFest will be staged for the first time from September 14 to October ...  

New Zealand and Korea are teaming up to go digging in Antarctica. A new collaborative research effort is poised to start and a $90 million state of the art station's being built by Japan at Terra Nova Bay. The New Zealand Government's given $174,000 to the ...  

During the first week of May, the small crew left behind at an Antarctica research station bid farewell to the sun as it set for the last time for the season, plunging the frigid continent into the permanent midnight of winter. The next sunrise will come ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October.The "Endless Sea" capsized and sank in 12 meters (39 feet) of water last month near where Chile and Brazil have navy bases. The crew was rescued without injury, but poor weather kept them from diving below to check the damage until Wednesday.The ship...  

Beijing, April 19 (IANS) A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical telescope in the snow-capped region, experts said. The AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope was installed by researchers from China’s 28th Antarctic scientific expedition team, Xinhua reported. The AST3-1 is China’s first domestically-produced automatic unmanned telescope, capable of conducting [...]  

We have customers around the world doing extraordinary things with our software, but Ben Saunders is taking it to a whole new level. Ben and his team are using Basecamp to organize an expedition to the South Pole and back, unsupported and on foot. This is the same journey Captain Robert Scott died trying to achieve 100 years ago, and no one has attempted it since. Ben has been a professional polar explorer for more than 10 years...  

Sydney - The densest waters of Antarctica have reduced dramatically over recent decades, in part due to man-made impacts on the climate, Australian scientists said on Friday. Research suggests that up to 60 percent of “Antarctic Bottom Water”, the ...  

There are a lot more black and white birds wobbling around in Antarctica than some might have thought, new satellite data reveals. With the use of Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images, scientists have been able to determine that there are close to 600,000 Emperor...  

During year-long preparations for their trip researchers and workers living at the joint French and Italian base, were even told that it would be easier to escape the International Space Station than the base when winter sets in. With temperatures expected ...  

Antarctic explorer Frank Wild has been largely neglected by history, but this new documentary sets the record straightThe history of the "heroic" age of Antarctic exploration at the turn of the 20th century is usually written up as the struggle between three men – the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who got to the South Pole first; the stiff-upper-lipped Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who did the decent thing by dying for the cause; and Ernest...  

Antarctica boasts almost twice as many emperor penguins as previously thought, researchers have discovered using satellite mapping technology to count the iceberg-huddling birds from above.An international team of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found 595,000 birds, far beyond previous estimates of 270,000 to 350,000, according to the study on Thursday in the open-access journal PLoS ONE."We are delighted to be able to...  

A gigantic plain of ice clinging to the edge of Antarctica is splitting in two. The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf is giving birth to a giant iceberg, and NASA scientists happened to be on hand to catch some stunning, up-close views of the action.  

Future of Antarctica -- Greener, More Robots : Discovery NewsThe U.S. spends about $380 million each year to support more than 1,200 scientists and support personnel in Antarctica. The last time officials did this big a review, they decided to build a new base at the South Pole and a one-square kilometer neutrino observatory under the ice cap....The biggest question facing scientists now is figuring out how Antarctica is reacting to climate...  

In all of recorded history, the names of people who discovered a continent comprise an extremely short list. Who actually saw Antarctica first is surprisingly unclear, but Nathaniel Palmer ("Captain Nat" to his many admirers) is one of the ...  

SeaWorld Orlando has revealed new detail about its new attraction Antarctica – Empire of the Penguin opening in 2013. The new attraction will takes guests on a voyage to the bottom-of-the-world, to the coldest and windiest continent ...  

Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica. This animation shows the circulation of ocean currents around the western Antarctic ice shelves.  credit:  NASA  

LONDON: Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica ...  

A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact of environmental change on the population of this iconic bird, which breeds in remote areas that are very difficult to study because they often are inaccessible with temperatures as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit.  

Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 23 feet (7 meters) of its floating ice sheet each year. Until now, scientists were not exactly sure how it was happening and whether or how man-made global warming might be a...  

Twice as many emperor penguins live in Antarctica as was previously thought, a satellite mapping study has shown. Scientists used Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images to estimate the population of each penguin colony around the Antarctic coastline.  

Far below the surface of the central East Antarctic ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles long by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok. The Vostok research station above it, for which it was named, was built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and is now operated by Russia. Even by Antarctic standards, it is a brutal place, with the dubious honor of holding the record for the lowest measured temperature anywhere on the planet, a mind- (if not...  

Filed under: Photos, Antarctica, United States, Camping, Cruises, Luxury TravelAntarctica was once considered the horribly barren, frozen place that only brave scientists would travel to. In the past, if Antarctica was on a travel bucket list it was probably in the same category as "Walk on the Moon" or "Travel back in time." In other words, it probably was not going to happen. Recently, Antarctica has gained new popularity as a viable travel...  

Data collected from a NASA ice-watching satellite reveal that the vast ice shelves extending from the shores of  western Antarctica are being eaten away from underneath by ocean currents, which have been growing warmer even faster than the air above. (...)Read the rest of Antarctica’s Ice Being Eaten Away From Below (342 words) © Jason [...]  

Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com [ Watch the Video ] An international team of scientists reported in the journal Nature on Thursday that warm ocean currents are the culprit behind recent ice loss in Antarctica. The team, lead by British Antarctic Survey, used 4.5 million measurements made by a laser instrument mounted on NASA's ICESat satellite to map the changing thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves. Of the 54 ice shelves they...  

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed. (Logo:...  

Ice shelves are important in slowing down the glaciers that feed them, controlling the loss of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet. Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that ...  

Scientists have developed a new method of reconstructing past climates that uses the water locked inside crystals in seabed sediment to shed light on the history of the Antarctic.  

Washington, April 26 (IANS) Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves may help explain recent ice loss from Antarctica, says a new study. A team of scientists used measurements from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and models to differentiate between the two known causes of melting ice shelves: warm [...]  

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada. A new study examining nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has...  

I love this video of an iceberg collapsing in on itself in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica. (Word of warning, the people filming this loved the experience even more than I loved watching it, so much so that you may want to turn your speakers down.) There are two kinds of icebergs, tabular and non-tabular. The tabular [...]  

Breaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really makes all the hype over the now discredited Steig et al. paper, which attempted to establish an air temperature warming trend as one of the … Continue reading →  

I was sitting on a small rock at the foot of a large cliff on an island surrounded by a choppy grey ocean. All around me were more rocks, snow-flecked volcanic craters, and surging swells of water rolling in from the Antarctic. Among the rocks nested a ...  

"It is good news from a conservation point of view," said geographer Peter Fretwell at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England, who led the penguin satellite census. "This is the first comprehensive census of a species taken from space.  

May 16: Life in an extreme desert ecosystem, Colorado State University professor Diana Wall. May 23: Ecosystem transformation in response to rapid climate change, Marine Biological Laboratory director Hugh Ducklow. May 30: The biology of Antarctic marine ...  

As ESA’s Envisat satellite continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite’s first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica – when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a few days due to mechanical instabilities of the ice masses triggered by climate warming.  

As part of the national celebration during Hospital Week, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics will feature a presentation by Emergency Services Medical Director Dean Gushee M.D.Gushee will showcase his photography of wildlife in Antarctica, where he traveled as a  physician supporting a National Geographic expedition team on assignment to photograph Emperor penguins. The presentations are scheduled for 6 p.m. May 10 and May 14 in the...  

BEIJING: A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical telescope in the snow-capped region, experts said. The AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope was installed by researchers from China's 28th Antarctic ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October. The "Endless Sea" capsized and sank in 12 meters (39 feet ...  

As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite’s first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica – when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a few days due to mechanical instabilities of the ice masses triggered by climate warming...  

Filed under: Antarctica, United States, Ecotourism, CruisesWatching whales leap out of the water is one of many opportunities travelers have when visiting Antarctica, as an increasing number of people worldwide are looking to explore the bottom of the earth. Student groups, individuals and families are frequently heading south on an Antarctica adventure that many only dreamed of just a few years ago. Recently, a group of Michigan State...  

Other “special case” waste incinerated in the Spokane facility includes confiscated drugs and paraphernalia from the Drug Enforcement Administration; expired prescription drugs from pharmaceutical companies; goods that didn’t clear U.S ...  

As the Antarctic Peninsula warms, penguins that live in the area year-round have a breeding advantage over birds that migrate in. Gentoo penguins live on the Antarctic Peninsula year-round, and their numbers are increasing while migratory ...  

One hundred years after explorers first reached the South Pole, Antarctica’s appeal as one of the last pockets of wilderness left in the world hasn’t faded. Images of white expanses and frozen seas attract thousands of people each year to ...  

Filed under: Antarctica, Photo of the Day, Video Antarctica has been the subject of several Photo and Video of the Day posts in the last few months, but it's hard to resist adorable penguins and jaw-dropping icebergs. So sharing a video of baby fur seals frolicking in the sub-Antarctic was a no-brainer. National Geographic nomad and past Gadling contributor Andrew Evans is currently crossing oceans on a Cape (Horn) to Cape (Good Hope) trip and...  

Description: Michelle Brown of O. Henry Middle School, Austin ISD, presents "Adventures in Science at the Bottom of the World," a tale of scientific exploration in Antarctica. Come early for refreshments and children's activities. Imagine a ...  

5-8-12-Lockheed (NYSE:LMT) beat a challenge to its $2 billion agreement to support the National Science Foundation's Antarctica operations, the WashingtonTechnology said, citing the GAO. CH2M Hill Antarctic Support Inc. had created and officially filed an ...  

By: LIS STEWART Not only was Katharine Coles willing to write poems about science, she traveled to Antarctica to observe scientists in one of their most exotic habitats, Coles said. Coles, a former Utah poet laureate, spoke on f...  

New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica. Comparing detailed measurements taken during the Australian Antarctic program's 2012 Southern Ocean marine science voyage to historical data dating back to 1970, scientists estimate there has been as much as a 60 per cent reduction in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water...  

A recent mission for U.S. Transportation Command proves its service members can get just about anything, anywhere. Members of the command stepped to the fore by building a pier in the southernmost harbor in the world: McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. This enabled the National Science Foundation staff to resupply workers at McMurdo Station, the largest community on the frozen continent. Normally, the resupply ship docks at an ice pier built out...  

The idea of stepping on all seven continents came to me several years ago when I realized I had already been on six continents. However, the seventh was a bit more challenging. Whenever I mentioned wanting to travel to Antarctica, the inevitable question ...  

NSF partners with international team to gather new information on hidden environments and past climate conditions in Antarctica National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first time in Antarctica. The mapping technique, an airborne electrical resistivity instrument, will enable researchers to study...  

B.Sameer Kumar: If you had any doubts about global warming and the disastrous impact that it would have on earth’s future, here is one of the best and most vivid example to convince you that if we do not buckle the trend, then we will most likely buckle under the weigh  

Ishan Sidhu: As per researchers, accelerating loss of ice to the sea is getting potentially worse as grip of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves is getting loose on their adjacent bay walls. The conclusion was derived on the basis of the report of Texas University sci  

Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western chunk of Antarctica ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile — A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October. The “Endless Sea” capsized and sank in 12 meters (39 ...  

WASHINGTON — Antarctica’s massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds, suggesting that sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.  

The AMIGOS are congregated near a spot that has been home to sudden, catastrophic changes in Antarctica's ice. In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf — a vast, floating plain of ice larger than Rhode Island — broke off from Antarctica's coastline ...  

Emperor penguins in Antarctica are now reportedly counted as double or twice as previously being thought, with scientists recently used a satellite mapping technology to count the iconic bird. According to a press release at Antarctica.ac.uk on Friday, April 13, 2012, scientists from UK, US and Australia used Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery technique [...]  

Traveling cross-continentally may take an adventurous personality, but travel to Antarctica truly requires the spirit of an explorer. In the past, the icy continent was a destination visited almost exclusively by professional researchers, scientists and ...  

Using high-resolution images taken using satellites, researchers analysed 44 colonies of emperor penguins around the coastline of Antarctica. They found the total emperor penguin population could be put at 595,000, roughly double previous estimates of ...  

Washington, April 14 (ANI): Scientists have completed the first-ever count of emperor penguins from space using high-resolution satellite mapping technology. They revealed that there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than was previously thought.  

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- There are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than was previously thought, according to a new study published Friday in the journal PLoS ONE. In the journal, scientists describe how they used Very High Resolution ...  

A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT data to determine the rate at which some well known ice shelves in Antarctica have been moving and changing, and the answer is: … Continue reading →  

It’s just two weeks since a paper in Nature flagged an ominous thinning of ice shelves along parts of the Antarctic coast lying due south of the Pacific Ocean. The ice appears to be melting from below, as changing ocean currents are bringing ...  

SCIENTISTS following Douglas Mawson footsteps have found evidence that the waters around Antarctica are changing with the climate. CSIRO researchers who re-enacted Mawson's epic journey on its centenary have revealed new findings from a study of the oceans ...  

Antarctica boasts almost twice as many emperor penguins as previously thought, researchers have discovered using satellitemapping technology to count the birds from above. An international team of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey ...  

MARQUETTE -- If you're wondering what inner city Detroit and the continent of Antarctica have in common,  one film maker says it's perseverance.  He and researcher Freda Waara talked about their trip to Antarctica at the Peter White Public Library Sunday.  

In January 2008, China installed the CSTAR optical telescope group at "Dome A" on the Antarctic Plateau, one of the coldest places on Earth. The telescope group has collected large amounts of astronomic data over the last four years, according to the ...  

Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being melted from below by warm water, a study finds, suggesting that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have predicted. The western chunk of Antarctica is ...  

Alexander Kumar watched the sun set last night over Antarctica's dazzling white horizon. The next time he will see it will be in August. The accident and emergency doctor will spend the next four months without as much as a glimmer of natural light in the ...  

U.S. Transportation Command recently took on the icy challenge of building a pier in Antarctica that would enable the National Science Foundation to re-supply workers at McMurdo Station, the largest community on the frozen continent.  

Sydney, May 10 (IANS) Genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus indicates that the West Antarctic ice sheet - one of the world’s major ice sheets - could collapse if temperatures keep climbing. Researchers analysed the genes of the Turquet’s octopus, which lives in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, during the census of Antarctic marine [...]  

Scientists have been able to count the number of emperor penguins in Antarctica by using satellite mapping technology - and there's twice as many as previously thought, they say. read more  

In its first public airing of an April 18 decision to deny a bid protest by CH2M Hill Cos. regarding its loss of a nearly $2-billion federal contract for Antarctica research support, the U.S. Government Accountability Office upheld the award to Lockheed ...  

Small-scale "expedition tourism" has existed since 1957 and is currently subject to Antarctic Treaty and Environmental Protocol provisions, but in effect self-regulated by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO). Not all vessels ...  

But what's behind the melting hasn't been clear — whether warm ocean currents or surface winds have a bigger impact on the ice. Now, a new satellite survey of Antarctica places the blame largely on the water. "In most places in Antarctica, we can't ...  

New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water – the deep, cold, dense water that drives the world's ocean currents from below – found off the coast of Antarctica. The finding is based on data collected from 1970 to this year, with researchers also having an opportunity to repeat sampling carried out during Douglas Mawson's 1912 Antarctic expedition.  

"Underwater volcanism is also sublimating portions of the Antarctica ice mass from underneath. In 2004, a research team led by Eugene Domack, aboard the research vessel Lawrence M. Gould, made a remarkable discovery of a massive underwater volcano off the coast of Antarctica using a deep water submersible vehicle equipped with a cadre of sensors and video cameras. The volcano was 2300 feet (700 meters) tall. The British team findings confirmed...  

Twice as many emperor penguins as thought in Antarctica, first-ever penguin count from space showsScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2012) — A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact of environmental change on the population of this iconic bird, which breeds in remote areas that are very...  

The massive ice shelves of Antarctica are shrinking because warm water is melting them from below, according to a study published this week in Nature. Every year, the western chunk of the continent is losing 23 feet of its ice sheet. These findings show that the indirect role of climate change "may have already triggered a period of unstable glacier retreat," the study states. If the western ice sheet completely melted over decades -- if not...  

Just 26,519 cruise passengers visited Antarctica between November and April, the lowest level in almost a decade and a drop of 22 per cent on 2010/11. This fall in numbers was largely due to a reduction in capacity after the International Maritime ...  

An Aurora man and a St. Charles woman are among the 73 passengers that had been stuck the last nine days in a port at an island in Antarctica, awaiting another ship to replace theirs, which has malfunctioning engines. "This is a disaster, from a travel standpoint," Bob Bonifas, 74, said via satellite telephone.  

Not long ago, I helped a colleague, Dr. Judith Connor from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, on her first scuba dive in Antarctica. This was a bit of change for me, since I m usually the person who gets to go underwater. On this expedition though, diving under the ice took somewhat of a backseat, as I was busy in the laboratory working on a research project focused on characterizing ...  

From the European Space Agency (ESA): Satellite observes rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic 5 April 2012 As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due … Continue reading →  

NASA's Operation ICE Bridge is the most recent success for the Airborne Science Program, NASA scientists and climate researchers. This six minute video summarizes NASA's research mission over west Antarctica and the Pine Island-Thwaites region through interviews with mission scientists and instrument operators.  credit:  NASA  

An Antarctic discovery in April of 2011 could help scientists better understand the conditions under which the planet's primitive life-forms thrived. “It’s like going back to early Earth,” says Dawn Sumner, a geobiologist at the University of California, Davis, describing her explorations of the eerie depths of East Antarctica’s Lake Untersee where Sumner and her colleagues, led by Dale Andersen of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif...  

AUSTIN, Texas, March 27 (UPI) -- Floating ice shelves in Antarctica are losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, potentially worsening an accelerating loss of ice to the sea, researchers say. Scientist at the University of Texas reported the finding...  

Not long ago, I helped a colleague, Dr. Judith Connor from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, on her first scuba dive in Antarctica. This was a bit of change for me, since I’m usually the person who gets to go underwater. On this ...  

Antarctic waters sink beneath the warmer waters, and these areas of mixing create a zone high in marine productivity, especially for Antarctic krill. This small, shrimp-like crustacean provides a steady diet for whales, seals, penguins and fish.  

A crew of eight Russian and Ukrainian adventurers aboard the Scorpius yacht have gone missing off the Antarctic coast as they set sail on an ambitious expedition around the North and South Poles. There has been no radio contact with the expedition, which ...  

Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, researchers have claimed. Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from ...  

A state-of-the-art ground station for earth observation satellites which will function in sub-zero temperatures and withstand high wind speeds will be established at Bharati Station, the third research facility being set up by India on the icy continent of ...  

WASHINGTON -- Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed. An international team ...  

WASHINGTON — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western ...  

From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could be tragic, except, well, sea ice in Antarctica is growing. … Continue reading →  

By Robert Niles: SeaWorld Orlando today revealed some more detail about its new ride for 2013: Antarctica - Empire of the Penguin. First, there's a new promotional poster:But let's take a closer look at that ride vehicle.SeaWorld said in a press release today that "Antarctica – Empire of the Penguin will include a first-of-its-kind family adventure ride that utilizes new technology for an experience that can change from visit to visit...  

The future of Antarctica is greener, cheaper and will probably involve more sharing. Oh, and more robots. Those are some of the likely recommendations of a blue ribbon panel looking at how the United States will conduct science on the frozen continent ...  

Scientists in charge of validating the measurements made by the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat spacecraft in Earth's orbit have recently made an important discovery – a portion of the Antarctic is currently getting taller. The finding was made in ...  

ANTARCTICA is not a place many people have called home. But Vietnam veteran Ian Teague called the South Pole home for more than a year. The 77-year-old also completed three tours in Vietnam in 1964, 1965 and 1970 and developed a program called People’s ...  

On the verge of opening its TurtleTrek attraction, SeaWorld Orlando designers revealed more details on Tuesday of the park’s largest-ever expansion, Antarctica Empire of the Penguin, which is set to open in 2013. The themed land will include a ...  

An analysis that covered more than four decades of satellite data collected over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) indicates that this critical portion of the Southern Continent is breaking apart at the seams, with potentially devastating consequences.  

During a recent visit to Antarctica, Esbjörn Torstensson of 50 Degrees North has created a practical and innovative iBook. Designed to enable future Antarctica travellers to get a good sense of the destination, the beauty of Antarctica is captured in its ...  

Antarctica wasn't always a vast barren land of ice and snow. It has undergone more extreme environmental changes than any other continent on Earth, write Jeffrey Stilwell and John Long in their exploration of Antarctica's geological and evolutionary history.  

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Sweeping landscapes, an untouched coastline, whales and penguins galore and the thrill of walking in the footsteps of famous explorers. After a drop in tourist numbers in recent years, Antarctica is gaining in popularity this year ...  

Dubai: Being in the heart of the highest, driest, windiest and coldest continent in the world, with no habitation or plant life, in sub-zero freezing temperatures, isn't for the faint of heart. But to one Dubai resident, it was the culmination of her ...  

A new Antarctica-themed "realm" opening next year at SeaWorld Orlando will include a state-of-the-art ride, an up-close penguin habitat, a restaurant and a retail ... vice president of marketing for SeaWorld Orlando, told those at the 2012 ...  

He paid for flights to Argentina separately. "When I booked it ... onto the "bucket lists" of experiences people wish to have before they die. A poll of travel bloggers by UK tour operator First Choice recommended Antarctica as one of the ...  

A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat satellite show that the so-called Larsen B ice shelf decreased ...  

DOME ARGUS, Antarctica, April 23, 2012 – A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.  

A NASA image of Pine Island Bay along West Antarctic’s Walgreen Coast. The bay deposits into the Amundsen Sea, which is absorbing a significant amount of slipped glacier ice. Although most of the surface of this ice shelf appears smooth, the ...  

AFP - A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat satellite show that the so-called Larsen B ice ...  

During a recent visit to Antarctica, Esbjörn Torstensson of 50 Degrees North has created a practical and innovative iBook. (TRAVPR.COM) AUSTRALIA - April 13th, 2012-During a recent visit to Antarctica, Esbjörn Torstensson of 50 Degrees North has created ...  

We knew that “deep ocean heat is rapidly melting Antarctic ice.” And we knew that these warm ocean currents melting Antarctica were so intense that, seawater appears to “boil on the surface like a kettle on the stove.” We also knew that ...  

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ...  

It is history in the making; a small group of NDSU students is getting a unique learning experience, most of us can say we've never had. Those students are literally going to the end of the earth, Antarctica, for their studies. NDSU is just one ...  

Global sea levels could rise at a significantly higher rate than had been previously predicted, a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, revealed. The findings, which came from research led by glaciologist Hamish Pritchard of the British ...  

Martillo Island has a colony of about 10,000 Magellanic penguins, plus some Gentoo penguins, and when I was there, a single, solitary king penguin. Tours also visit the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, a brick tower guarding the sea entrance to Ushuaia.  

EPSOM, UNITED KINGDOM – Apr 2, 2012: Toyota’s redoubtable Hilux continues to push the boundaries of extreme endurance, completing a marathon Antarctic journey of more than 5,900 miles, further than any vehicle of its type has managed before.  

The AST3-1 telescope is carefully unloaded and put into position at Dome A, with the University of New South Wales-built PLATO-A Observatory (yellow object) in the background. (All photographs courtesy of the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and ...  

WASHINGTON Antarcticas massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.  

Researchers say a recent survey using satellite mapping technology shows there are nearly twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. Scientists from the United States, Australia and Britain say the high-resolution satellite ...  

Captain Scott’s Centenary year sees Brantwood host two exhibitions: Drawn to Antarctica 2005 – 2012 by artist Frances Hatch, which includes notes from sketchbooks, photographic records, paintings and drawings from her own two week visit to Antarctica ...  

The climber and base jumper from Moscow had an ambition to leap from the peak of Ulvetanna mountain in the Drygalski Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Almost 3000 metres above sea level, the summit of the mountain named Wolf's Peak in Norwegian looked a ...  

Zee NewsSatellite records Antarctica ice shelf's retreatZee NewsVienna: The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite continues to record the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to atmospheric warming. Envisat mapped a loss of 1790 sq km of ice in Larsen B's area, in addition to the rapid break up ...Antarctica's Ice Shelf Shrinking, Shrinking, Shrinking… (Slideshow)Care2.comKey ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent...  

“There is big demand for this ‘wow factor’ continent combined with our style of travel, and next year we’re delivering even more with the addition of Antarctica and our own special experiences,” she said. Among the other special APT “Exclusive ...  

Bonifas said the crew tried to entertain the passengers by taking them on hikes, but boredom for him has set in. Still it could have been worse. “If this would have happened a day out in that sea, we’d be stranded out there, and if you get big waves it ...  

First they saw it on TV, now they want to see it in real life. Upscale tour company Abercrombie & Kent reports that Frozen Planet, the epic Discovery Channel series about the earth's polar regions that began airing in March, has caused a surge in bookings ...  

Quark Expeditions, a leader in polar adventures, announces the newest member of its fleet, the Ocean Diamond. This ‘Super Yacht’ will be the first to deliver CarbonNeutral voyages to Antarctica, another addition to the company’s long list of polar ...  

"At first I was mainly just doing odds and ends and general repair and maintenance of the physical components of the vehicle but eventually came to help on some basic electrical tasks such as testing and building cables, modifying boards to given ...  

As the world's oceans absorb more and more heat trapped by our increasingly carbon laden atmosphere the warmer sea water is melting the massive Antarctic ice shelves from below, a new survey utilizing NASA's CESat satellite shows. What's to ...  

A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.Keep on reading: Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent—ESA  

There are a lot more black and white birds wobbling around in Antarctica than some might have thought, new satellite data reveals. With the use of Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images, scientists have been able to determine that there are ...  

http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2012/apr/190412-Mumbai-Guide-All-one-can-listento-in-Antarctica-is-silence.htm As part of Project SEARCH (Sensitisation, Education and Awareness on Recycling for a Cleaner Habitat), a Tetra Pak and TERI joint ...  

The crew was able to fix it, but when the ship started heading north, another engine failure occurred. The cruise line is sending another ship to pick up Bonifas and the other passengers, but it will be about six days before the ship will reach them.  

Man's foray into the exploration of terra incognita or Antarctica dates back to 1578 when Captain Drake reached up to 570 only to turn back without establishing existence of 'Antarktikos', the southern land mass promised by Aristotle way back in ...  

A huge swath of the waters off Antarctica must be protected from fishing and other industries, environmental groups said on Monday. More than 40% of the region needs to be given protection before one of the world's last true frontier areas is ...  

Antarctica Ice Sheets Cracking: A new study finds that the floating ice shelves of West Antarctica are cracking rapidly and losing their grip on the rocky bay walls that slow their flow, threatening to speed up the flow of ice from land to sea.  

MercoPressAround the poles sailing team missing in waters off AntarcticaCalgary HeraldA Russian-Ukrainian crew that set sail in September on a historic expedition around the South and North Poles went missing in the Antarctic on Friday after encountering gale-force winds. A spokeswoman for the eight-person crew on board the 29-metre ...Scorpius Trapped In Antarctica IceEurasia ReviewRussian yacht goes missing in Antarctica en route to South...  

Young doctor set to become first foreign national of Indian origin to achieve the feat A young doctor, son of Indian immigrants, is set to become the first foreigner of Indian origin to walk across Antarctica carrying the Indian Tricolour to what he ecstat ...  

It is exposed to severe environmental stresses, including minimal nutrients, low temperatures, extreme shade, and, during the winter, 24-hour darkness ... "Our laboratory has a focus on understanding adaptations in extreme environments ...  

Click image to enlarge. The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica ... Colonies are located by looking for large patches of ice discolored by penguin poop or guano. This approach turned up 44 colonies across Antarctica — including ...  

Maj. Blair Herdrick has an impressively long work commute. As a navigator for the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing, Herdrick regularly flies supply missions to Antarctica to support scientific research."It's definitely challenging, which is ...  

Bangladesh will be the world's worst victim if the ice-sheets of Antarctica start melting due to global warming, Environment Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said at a seminar yesterday. If the industrialised nations do not reduce pumping carbon into the ...  

KOLKATA, 2 APRil: India's third research base in Antarctica is now fully built and has entered a critical testing period. A few scientists are there carrying out minor experiments, but the official launch is set for November, when the main team of ...  

Thirty-four years old. She looked every moment of it. As we stood on the monkey deck looking through the mist at the mountain, the city, the paint peeled under our feet in great chunks. Every line showed, every weathered crack was emphasised by the salt ...  

"Wouldn't it be hard to make a movie about a huge Nazi army in an underground world in Antarctica on a next-to-nothing budget?" you might ask. The answer is "Yes." In Nazis at the Center of the Earth, a crack team of scientists stationed in Antarctica ...  

Veendam also sails a 21-day South America and Antarctica Explorer Holiday cruise departing Rio de Janeiro to Valparaiso Dec. 20, 2012, and a 20-day South America and Antarctica Explorer cruise departing Valparaiso to Buenos Aires, Jan.10, 2013. A 21-day ...  

This group of countries participating as members of Antarctica Treaty have a territorial interest in the Antarctic continent but the provisions of the Treaty do not allow them to make their claims while it is in force. Small-scale "expedition tourism" has ...  

The Toyota Hilux has once again been thrown into a seemingly impossible situation and again has survived. This time around, a team from Extreme World Races piloted three Hilux pickup trucks around Antarctica and each clocked more than 5900 miles on the ...  

A series at SIU Carbondale offers lectures, workshops, films and exhibits about Antarctica through May 4. The event began after Gary Kolb, dean of Mass Communication and Media Arts, and Jay Needham, associate professor in radio-television, made a 2008 trek ...  

A young doctor, son of Indian immigrants, is set to become the first foreigner ... taking referrals from all over India and providing a high standard of care for free.  It is an example to the rest of the world,” he said. But from where he is now ...  

MOSCOW, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The former Soviet Union's first weather satellite Meteor-1 fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after 43 years in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to data provided by the Main Center for Space Reconnaissance, the ...  

PanARMENIAN.Net - Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday, March 27 after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to RIA Novosti. “According to data ...  

THE One and All will not be used to replicate Ernest Shackleton’s famous expedition to Antarctica next January. Volunteers say the tall ship is not equipped to make the six-week voyage and would need a multi-million dollar revamp. The Portside Messenger ...  

The floating ice shelves of West Antarctica are fracturing increasingly and losing their grip on the rocky bay walls that slow their flow, threatening to speed up the flow of ice from land to sea, a new study finds. The study looked at 40 years ...  

India has done a soft launch of its third research station in Antarctica's Larsemann Hills region, considered as one of the few geological windows into the history of the continent. "The construction is over. We are running it on trial basis. The winter ...  

Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.  

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - National Science Foundation (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first time in Antarctica. The mapping ...  

A group of scientists announce the successful testing of a new technique for mapping the unseen distribution of groundwater and ice in Antarctica. The test was carried out in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region, and went on flawlessly. Working with funds from ...  

India has done a soft launch of its third research station in Antarctica's Larsemann Hills region, considered as one of the few geological windows into the history of the continent. "The construction is over. We are running it on trial basis ...  

In December 2011, a group of MSU study abroad students on an expedition in Antarctica found their boat stuck on ice, stranded, but not for too long. “We just enjoyed the scenery for a while,” social work sophomore Jennifer Campbell said. “About a ...  

By installing a network of seismographs — instruments that record the energy waves from faraway earthquakes — to map out the qualities of the rock deep below the surface, Wiens and a team of researchers hope to figure out "what effect the Earth has on ...  

When scientists or extreme adventurers plan a trip to the most extreme locales on Earth, the Toyota Hilux is usually on their list of trusted tools to take along. That was definitely the case for the team from Extreme World Races, which completed the ...  

Researchers hard at work around a seismograph, an instrument in the orange box buried in a hole in the snow. Solar power runs the seismic station during the summer, and batteries keep it going during the long, dark winter months. CREDIT: Doug Wiens.  

MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “According to data provided by ...  

National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first time in Antarctica. The mapping technique, an airborne ...