McMurdo Station Antarctica

Novinite.comAntarctica-Bound Ship with Bulgarian Scientists Survives Critical SituationNovinite.com... supplies to both the Bulgarian and the Spanish Antarctic missions which are located next to one another on the Livingston Island off Antarctica's coast. ...The Night (ROUNDUP)Focus NewsShip with Bulgarian Antarctic Explorers Onboard Sustains DamageNovinite.comShip that carried back part of the Bulgarian Antarctic expedition is out of ...Focus...  

Reuters India (blog)Penguin chatter heralds Antarctica's 'White Christmas'Reuters India (blog)Penguins' chatter outside my tent woke me to Christmas Day in Antarctica, but instead of Santa's sleigh there was just the usual run to ensure our human ...and more »  

Pune girl climbs highest peak in Antarctica (With Images)Thaindian.comAfter the trek on treacherous icy Antarctica mountains lasting for nearly a week, Krushnaa and her team, Antarctic Expeditions & Logistics, reached the base ...  

A survey of Antarctica's continental shelf, carried out by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has revealed a rich mix of weird and wonderful organisms, like this soft coral that still needs to be identified by experts.  

Find out what's locked beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets on Antarctica: The ...Indiantelevision.comMUMBAI: An endless horizon...miles and miles of ices...huge icebergs…that's Antarctica for you, a continent of remote natural wonder! ...  

CAPE DENISON, Antarctica (Reuters Life!) - The closest Australian expeditioners to Antarctica will get to a nativity scene this Christmas is watching thousands of Adelie penguins tending to newly hatched youngsters.  

The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions. The visitors to the snow-covered landmass are endangering not just the Antarctic region by their actions, but also the rest of the world.  

The science station called McMurdo has been operating on the southern tip of the continent since 1956. It's an important research center, attracting geologists, physicists, engineers, hydrologists, pilots, and just plain adventure-seekers. McMurdo Station has grown so much, in fact, that it's really a town unto itself. It's got a harbor, three airfields, a heliport, over a hundred buildings, even three bars and a bowling alley. After all...  

Fifty years ago today, twelve nations signed The Antarctic Treaty, regulating research activity, economic exploitation, and territorial claims in Antarctica. To mark this occasion, Annie C. Lee of Fast Company has compiled eleven interesting facts about the frozen continent: 3. Antarctica’s biggest population center is the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station. In the summer, the community can [...]  

Countries that manage Antarctica are considering new controls on ships visiting the frozen continent to reduce the growing threat of human and environmental disasters posed by exploding numbers of tourists.  

'Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment'The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week (Tuesday 1 December) by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).  

What is being billed as the first comprehensive review of the science of the Antarctic climate is again focusing attention on both the impact our actions will have on this continent and the vastly complicated nature of the Earth’s atmosphere. Produced by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, the headline figure from the report is that sea levels could rise by 1.4 metres due to loss of ice from the West Antarctic ice sheet, with...  

The East Antarctic ice sheet, once unaltered by global warming, has swiftly melted since 2006 and could increase sea levels, says a new study.Available in a recent issue of Nature Geoscience, the same research indicates that the West Antarctic ice sheet is also melting rapidly.Scientists are concerned that higher global temperatures could cause a quick collapse of West Antarctica, which has enough frozen water to raise the global ocean...  

Adelie penguins parade on sea ice about 70 kilometers from Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica in this photo taken from the research vessel Shirase, which reached the coast of the frozen continent on ...  

Scientists said a giant iceberg over twice the size of Sydney Harbor is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, The Telegraph UK reported. Researchers at the Australian Antarctic Division (ADD) spotted the 12 mile-long and 5-mile wide ...