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A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists and scientists to see emperor penguins in Antarctica has been crunching through pack ice and should reach clear water soon, a shipping official said Wednesday.
A Russian ship reached open water off Antarctica after struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days, a Russian shipping company and a British travel agency said Friday.
A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.
The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.
Changing wind patterns linked to global warming are altering the food chain in Antarctica and may lead to further increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday.
Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there.
A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided Friday with a Japanese whaling vessel in a dramatic Antarctic Ocean clash Japan condemned as "unforgivable."
Japanese whalers and radical anti-whaling activists trying to stop the hunters from pulling one of their kills out of the Antarctic Ocean collided Friday in an incident Tokyo condemned as "appalling and unforgivable." No one was injured.
The International Whaling Commission may ease its ban on commercial whaling to allow Japan to hunt whales off its coast in return for killing fewer whales in the Antarctic, officials said Tuesday.
A Norwegian injured at a remote research base in the Antarctic was evacuated during the weekend after his fellow crew members managed to clear snow and ice from a landing strip that had been closed for the winter.
The crew of a Norwegian research base in the Antarctic was racing to clear snow and ice from a closed airfield so an injured team member could be flown to South Africa for treatment, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Monday.
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
Laser pulses bounced off the surface of Antarctica by NASA's ICESat mission have revealed numerous areas of ice that either rose or sank due to highly pressurised water flooding into or out of subglacial lakes beneath (Image: Fricker et al/Science)
An anti-whaling group's boat and a Japanese whale-spotting vessel collided in Antarctic waters Monday during violent clashes over a pod of whales, conservationists and Japanese officials said.
Krill – small shrimp-like invertebrates that feed on plankton – are capable of turning the calm nocturnal sea into a churning, frothing Jacuzzi, researchers report.
Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.
Global warming fears intensify, oceans warmest now for 130 years, 2C above 1909 15CJuly hottest month for world's oceans in 130 years of record keeping. Average water temperature worldwide was 17 degrees Celsius, according to US National Climatic Data Centre, 2C above 15C 1909 minimum.
Penguin poo viewed from space reveals new Antarctic colony locationsStretches of excrement-stained ice that are so large they are visible from space have helped scientists to locate 10 newly discovered emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica.
I saw on one of the news channels today that putting the Polar Bears on the Endangered Species list was ineffective in protecting them from the global warming which is melting the artic ice because if the causative action happened outside the arctic, the law did not cover it.
New York City-sized ice collapses off AntarcticaAn area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.
Microbes that 'breathe iron' are found in AntarcticA community of microbes that have lived cut off from the rest of the world for more than 1.5 million years has been discovered beneath a vast glacier in the Antarctic.
Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of YearsA reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report April 17 in the journal Science.
Ice Bridge holding Antarctic ice-shelf cracks up.An isthmus of ice 100km wide in 1950 finally gives way at 1/2 km, exposing more ice to the effects of ocean currents.
Antarctic Ice Bridge Breaks, Hastening the Collapse of an Ice SheetAn ice bridge between two Antarctic islands that pinned the vast Wilkins Ice Shelf in place has splintered, and researchers say the change will probably accelerate the disintegration of the ice shelf, which is currently the size of Connecticut.
As a consequence of global warming, Antarctic ice shelf on the brink of breaking up. An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice to two islands in Antarctica has shattered "and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming." Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf — which is about the size of Connecticut — is on the brink of breakin …
Ice bridge ruptures in AntarcticAn ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped. Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is of the brink of breaking away, and provides further evidence or rapid change in the region.
It is a little difficult to put a finger on any one cause for global warming.
New Antarctic Fish Species Discovered | LiveScienceA Spanish researcher has discovered a newfound species of fish in an area of the Antarctic Ocean that has not been studied since 1904.
Ice Declining Faster Than Expected In Both Arctic And Antarctic GlaciersScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2009) — Multidisciplinary research from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 provides new evidence of the widespread effects of global warming in the polar regions.
Despite the hot air, the Antarctic is not warming up Another example last week was the much-publicised claim, contradicting all previous evidence, that Antarctica, the world's coldest continent, is in fact warming up, Antarctica has long been a major embarrassment to the warmists.
Jon Bowermaster reports from the AntarcticaJon Bowermaster has returned to Antarctica this winter. He is gathering more first-hand information on how the region continues to change and change fast.
Elephant seals no lightweight for Antarctic hutA group of elephant seals lolling by a damaged wooden hut in Antarctica vastly complicated simple repairs yesterday, a sign of extra hazards to people on the frozen continent.
Rabbits devastate sub-Antarctic island wildlifeThe removal of cats in 2000 caused "catastrophic" damage to the ecology of a sub-Antarctic island, a study says. Since cats were removed from Macquarie Island, rabbit numbers have soared, and the animals are now devastating plants.
Concealed floods drive flow of Antarctic iceA hidden network of glacial lakes far below the Antarctic surface regulates the motion of the continent's ice rivers, a study has found. When the subglacial lakes overflow, the ice above accelerates towards the ocean.
Study: Climate change at poles man-madeExcerpt: We're able for the first time to directly attribute warming in both the Arctic and the Antarctic to human influences on the climate...
Global Warming fears rise as Arctic Melt yields huge Atmosphere Methane RiseAtmospheric concentrations of methane (CH4) , a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, have risen for the first time in eight years, prompting further serious global warming fears
Conclusive proof that polar warming is being caused by humans?New research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has demonstrated for the first time that human activity is responsible for significant warming in both polar regions.
Antarctic group tackles illegal fishingInternational representatives have arrived in Hobart to discuss the preservation of Antarctica's marine wildlife.
Huge Mountain Range Should Not Be ThereAn Antarctic mountain range that rivals the Alps in elevation will be probed this month by an expedition of scientists using airborne radar and other Information Age tools to virtually "peel away" more than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice covering the peaks.
Scientists learn space lessons from Antarctic basesIn the depths of the Antarctic winter, expeditioners at Australia's research bases might as well be on the moon. Or on their way to Mars.
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