McMurdo Station Antarctica

SYDNEY (AP) -- A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rarity in waters so far north, scientists said. Australian Antarctic Division researchers working on Macquarie Island, about 930 miles ...  

A large mass of 20 icebergs is heading towards New Zealand.The mass is drifting north from Antarctica, past the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island about 1500km southeast of Tasmania, the Australian Antarctic Division said.In the...  

SYDNEY (AP) — A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Ant-arctica and Australia ... broke off Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf between 2000 and 2002, Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young said. Several icebergs ...  

Filed under: History, Antarctica, United StatesThe Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station has been conducting research in Antarctica for more than 50 years, and it has been the southernmost continually inhabited place on Earth over that period. For more than 30 of those years, the iconic image of the place has been that of a giant geodesic dome towering more than five stories above the ice. But now, the dome has been decommissioned, and is...  

Image 1: Adelie penguins have survived in Antarctica for thousands of years and are invaluable for genetic research. Image 2: A group of Adelie penguins strolls across the Antarctic snow.  

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been studying glaciers in Antarctica, looking at their reducing surface area. As the glaciers retreat, more open water is exposed, and lead author of a new study, Professor Lloyd Peck of the BAS found that large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula...  

Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem. Scientists led by Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said that atmospheric and ocean carbon is being gobbled [...]  

Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem.Scientists led by Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said that atmospheric and ocean carbon is being gobbled up by microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton, which float near the surface.After absorbing the carbon through the...  

In early January 2005, it appeared that the B-15A iceberg was on a collision course with the Drygalski Ice Tongue, the floating portion of a glacier flowing off the Scott Coast of Antarctica and into the Ross Sea....This item belongs to: image/nasa.This item has files of the following types: JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata  

PARIS & SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orolia (NYSE Alternext Paris: ALORO), a high-technology group specializing in precise Positioning, Navigation and Timing, and Digital Angel (NASDAQ: DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Orolia to purchase McMurdo, a Digital Angel unit based in the...  

Working with millions of NASA satellite measurements, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol find dynamic ice thinning occurring in all latitudes in Greenland and intensifying on key Antarctic coastlines. While NASA satellite data clearly shows the Arctic is thinning, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol say [...]  

Using 18 GPS stations that were installed on bedrock outcrops across West Antarctica, researchers from several U.S. universities have directly measured the vertical motion of bedrock at these sites and have concluded that the rate of ice loss of the...  

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic Global Positioning System (GPS) Network (WAGN) project suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been slightly overestimated. The project is noteworthy because is the first time researchers have directly measured the vertical motion of the bedrock at sites across West Antarctica using the US Global Positioning System.  

To protect penguins on the rapidly warming Antarctic peninsula, regulators need to ensure the survival of shrimp-like krill, the base of the food chain at the bottom of the world, marine experts said on Wednesday.Whales and seals also depend on krill for food, the experts said in a telephone news briefing.The numbers of Chinstrap (right) and Adelie penguins are declining steeply along the Antarctic peninsula, the part of the southern continent...  

In the chilly depths of one of Antarctica's freshwater lakes, a surprising number of novel viruses thrive. Researchers braved frigid temperatures to collect water samples from Lake Limnopolar, located on Livingston Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, and sequenced the genomes of the collected species. The new genetic study reveals some 10,000 species of viruses from a dozen families.