Antarctica News
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New climatology evidence presents some concerning news about the South Pole. Researchers have discovered that the South Pole is warming at a rate three times above the global average. This has occurred across the past 30 years.
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By AFP
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New Zealand said Tuesday it will reduce its scientific projects in Antarctica to keep the virtually uninhabited continent free from COVID-19.
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The South Pole is surrounded by a harsh, frozen landscape of year-round ice and snow — but it hasn't always been this way. Imagine Antarctica as being home to an ancient, swampy rainforest full of diverse animal and plant life.
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By AFP
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An American requiring emergency medical treatment has been flown from Antarctica to New Zealand in a mercy dash in "challenging" winter conditions, the Australian Antarctic Division said Saturday.
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By AFP
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Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned.
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A few weeks ago, scientists at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica awoke to find their usually pristine white surroundings drenched in a shocking blood-red.
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By AFP
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Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday.
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The temperature in Antarctica reached a record-breaking 18.3 degrees Celsius (65 Fahrenheit) at one site on Thursday, almost a full degree above the previous high set five years ago.
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Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels.
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Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four decades than any other glacier in Antarctica. Current models indicate that this will continue in the future but at conflicting rates.
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A new NASA map - called BedMachine Antarctica - of the mountains, valleys, and canyons hidden under Antarctica's ice has revealed the deepest land on Earth and will help forecast future ice loss.
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By AFP
The swimsuit-clad tourists leap into the icy water, gasping at the shock, and startling a gaggle of penguins.They are spectators at the end of the world, luxury visitors experiencing a vulnerable ecosystem close-up.
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By AFP
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A push by Australia and France to create a massive ocean sanctuary in east Antarctica is in doubt as nations meet in Hobart to discuss the plans, with China and Russia opposing.
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By AFP
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A more than 600-square-mile iceberg broke off Antarctica in recent days, but the event is part of a normal cycle and is not related to climate change, scientists say.
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By AFP
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A rare phenomenon causing "the strongest Antarctic warming on record" is set to deliver more pain to dought-stricken Australia, scientists said Friday.
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A NASA-funded study has found that Antarctica faces a tipping point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible even if global heating eases.
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By AFP
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For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
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Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea can reach giant sizes there, but nowhere else. Researchers from the Universities of Hawaii and Montana decided to find out.
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By AFP
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Billions of tonnes of meltwater flowing into the world's oceans from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could boost extreme weather and destabilise regional climate within a matter of decades, researchers said Wednesday.
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A massive cavity that is two-thirds the size of Manhattan and nearly the height of the Chrysler Building is growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica - a discovery that NASA scientists called “disturbing.”
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Scientists in Antarctica have found preserved carcasses of tiny animals in Subglacial Lake Mercer, buried under more than 3,500 feet of ice.
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By AFP
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An American adventurer has become the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without assistance of any kind.
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By AFP
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A plan to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a consensus, with environmentalists on Saturday decrying a lack of scientific foresight.
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By AFP
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Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday.
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By AFP
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Five major krill fishing firms Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
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By AFP
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Scientists based in Antarctica welcomed the winter solstice by plunging into icy waters Thursday as part of a "mad tradition" heralding the return of brighter days after weeks of darkness.In temperatures of -22 degrees Celsius (-7.
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The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
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By AFP
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More of a giant France-sized glacier in Antarctica is floating on the ocean than previously thought, scientists said Tuesday, raising fears it could melt faster as the climate warms and have a dramatic impact on rising sea-levels.
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By AFP
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Sea ice cover in Antarctica has dropped to its second-lowest on record, Australian authorities said Friday, adding that it was not yet clear what was driving the reduction after several years of record-highs.
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By AFP
A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica's King George Island.Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change.
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Antarctica Image
An Adélie penguin in Antarctica. Photo by OCEANITES/RON NAVEEN Oceanites
A small sastrugi on the surface of the Antarctic Plateau, with SnoCat vehicle in the distance. Stephen Bannister
Flow speeds at Smith, Pope, and Kohler Glaciers. NASA
Station meeting of geologists and geophysicists in the sounder center of the FS Polarstern. JP Klages, Alfred Wegener Institute
A gentoo penguin sliding in the snow in Antarctica. Photo by OCEANITES/RON NAVEEN Oceanites
Robert Swan and his son, Barney will begin an expedition to the South Pole in November, relying only on renewable technologies. 2041 Climate Force
From white to green: plant life is booming in Antarctica as the climate warms. University of Exeter/Matt Amesbury
Remnants of the forest have been fossilized. Erik Gulbranson, UWM
Bellinghausen Sea off the coast of Antarctica NASA/Michael Studinger
Antarctica's glaciers carry ice from the interior of the continent to the ocean. This NASA illustration shows where the ice is moving fastest; areas in red have the fastest flow, followed by those in pink and purple. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chief scientist for Shackelton's Ross Sea Party was Alexander Stevens, seen here on board the SY Aurora, some time between 1914 and 1917. Courtesy of Antarctic Heritage Trust, New Zealand
Construction of a new Amundsen-Scott research station, adjacent to the Dome, began in 1999. The new station was constructed in sections with Science, Medical, Administration, Communications, Multipurpose Room, and additional living quarters. NOAA
Regions iof Antarctica where penguin counts were done. The Antarctic Peninsula is on the upper left of the map. Oceanites
The winter aurora over Halley VI is spectacular.
Film by Sam Burrel, British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey
Antarctica's major ice shelf areas. Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Ross Sea, Antarctica: Penguins charging upwards Paul Nicklen
A break in the Ross ice shelf. Columbia University
Adrian Luckman, Martin O'Leary /Project Midas
SeaBED deployment from the RRS James Clark Ross under the midnight sun Permission British Antarctic Survey
The notebook of Zoologist, George Murray Levick, which Lizzie Meek and her team rescued from the ice. Courtesy of Antarctic Heritage Trust New Zealand
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