Antarctica

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 ...  

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 ...  

"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...  

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.  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 [...]  

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'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...  

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 ...  

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 ...