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This time-lapse video made it online just a few of days ago, yet it has already been seen more than 300,000 times.
The footage documents the changes the Antarctic ice experiences during two months, and condenses them is less than five minutes.
“Time-lapse of our icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, travelin... |
8 May 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Everybody loves penguins, and not just because movies like Happy Feet made sure that we would absolutely and irrevocably fall for these cute looking animals.
This year's April 25 marks World Penguin Day (I am not making things up, there really is such a thing as the World Penguin Day) and Greenpeace is asking ... |
25 April 2013
10:23 GMT |
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While exploring the waters of the Antarctica, a group of nature enthusiasts had a rather peculiar encounter with a leopard seal which, for one reason or another, decided to approach them and hug their kayak.
“This guy (I have it on good authority that it was in fact a male) found us and started being quite in... |
15 April 2013
09:08 GMT |
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As far as polar bears are concerned, climate change and global warming are some of the worst things their species has ever had to face.
Still, recent information made available to the public by researchers working with the University of Minnesota shows that there is one species that seems to be benefiting from all ... |
4 April 2013
10:21 GMT |
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A paper published in this week's issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research says that, throughout the past 60 years, the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced its summer melt season starting to last increasingly longer.
Researchers say that, according to their investigations, average summer temperatures in thi... |
28 March 2013
16:41 GMT |
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A study recently published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE sheds new light on the distribution of bat-eating spiders around the world. Not to beat about the bush, it appears that, apart from Antarctica, all other continents are currently inhabited by such arachnids.
Following their analyzing data collected over ... |
18 March 2013
09:14 GMT |
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Russian scientists are now backtracking on claims of new life at the subglacial Lake Vostok. Last week, one Russian scientist made the quite spectacular claim that the team searching for life in the remote lake had finally found what they were looking for.
Now though, the team's leader stepped in to say that w... |
11 March 2013
15:31 GMT |
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It seems that the years of effort are paying off, Russian scientists now claim that they have discovered a type of bacteria unlike any seen before, in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica.
DNA analysis indicates that this bacteria is not only new, it's not even related to any of the bacteria types that hav... |
7 March 2013
11:23 GMT |
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Towards the end of this year's January, a team of researchers from Belgium and Japan stumbled upon a relatively large meteorite. The extraterrestrial rock was discovered in East Antarctica, and the specialists who took to analyzing it explain that it weighs roughly 40 pounds (about 18 kilograms). Although the me... |
1 March 2013
01:41 GMT |
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As previously reported, green-oriented group Sea Shepherd are now busy trying to keep the whales inhabiting the waters of the Antarctica safe from several Japanese whalers whose crew are very much interested in hunting them.
Recent news on this topic says that, while trying to block the Japanese whalers' acces... |
20 February 2013
03:54 GMT |
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Information made available to the general public by the European Space Agency says that, according to their latest measurements, the ozone hole over the Antarctica is now way smaller than it used to be. More precisely, it seems that said hole now finds itself at its smallest in 10 years, meaning that human society&... |
13 February 2013
05:43 GMT |
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Several teams of scientists have been looking for signs of life under thousands of meters of Antarctic ice. While there's no conclusive evidence yet, they are getting closer to determining if these extreme conditions can harbor life or are completely barren.
Earlier this week, a US team has managed to drill dow... |
30 January 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Antarctica can be an unforgiving place in the best of circumstances. In the dead of winter, it's one of the most hostile places on Earth. While there have been plenty of expeditions during the summer, no one has attempted to cross the continent in the winter, until now. Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, considere... |
7 January 2013
04:55 GMT |
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It seems that life really can't survive everywhere, or at the very least that it's hard to find in some places. Russian scientists have published the first preliminary results of their drilling into Lake Vostok, several kilometers beneath the Antarctic ice, show the lake, which has been sealed off for at le... |
20 October 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The 1987 Montreal Protocol is a piece of legislation that not many are familiar with, but one that will have far-reaching implications for our well-being, and for the health of the planet. Above is an image showing how the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica evolved over the years.
What the 1987 agreement did ... |
18 September 2012
08:54 GMT |
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A team of British researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol, is currently about to embark on an Antarctic expedition that has been 16 years in the making. The scientific study will be one of the most ambitious ever conducted at the South Pole.
Scientists, engineers and support personnel (a total... |
7 September 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Between 2002 and 2003, the Transantarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment gathered earthquake data from the David Glacier in Antarctica. These datasets may now help geologists learn more about how stick slip fault lines work.
The work also contributes significantly to understanding how glaciers move across the surface ... |
24 August 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Though located at and around the South Pole, far outside regular shipping lanes, and protected by extreme weather, the Antarctic is still endangered by human activities, as well as a host of other factors. This is why researchers in the United States are currently asking for more protection of the area. The call was... |
14 July 2012
06:56 GMT |
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After signing an agreement with the Murmansk Shipping Company, of Russia, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) now has access to a new diesel icebreaker, called Vladimir Ignatyuk. The purpose of the ship will be to create a navigable lane through McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica. With this ship, the NSF will be abl... |
4 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Given the fact that emperor penguin's entire life revolves around the sea ice near the continent of Antarctica, it is no wonder that global warming brings unfortunate news for these animals.
As researchers explain, the emperor penguin is dependent on sea ice for two major reasons: first of all, in order to get... |
21 June 2012
08:37 GMT |
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Scientists with the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently figured out that the laser altimeter instrument on the CryoSat satellite can be used to measure sea levels as well. Originally, the device was create to measure sea and land ice thickness and height.
CryoSat is the second vehicle ordered by ESA, since th... |
28 May 2012
06:03 GMT |
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According to the latest data collected by the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) spacecraft, it would appear that warm ocean currents attacking the underbelly of sea-based ice sheets are the primary driver of ice loss in the Antarctic. The currents are made warmer by climate change.
The Southern ... |
26 April 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Using high-resolution imaging capabilities aboard satellites in Earth's orbit, researchers were able to determine in a new study that Antarctica holds twice as many emperor penguins as initially thought.
The investigation was the first to demonstrate that it may be possible for biologists to conduct a census of... |
19 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat spacecraft is in a unique position to reveal the extent of ice loss going on in Antarctica. The satellite has been studying the Southern Continent for more than a decade, and the datasets it obtained since then are now being scanned for long-term trends.
ESA has been u... |
5 April 2012
05:43 GMT |
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Scientists in charge of validating the measurements made by the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat spacecraft in Earth's orbit have recently made an important discovery – a portion of the Antarctic is currently getting taller.
The finding was made in a very interesting area of the continent, whic... |
30 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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A research conducted on Lake Untersee in April 2011 revealed the existence of impressive mounds of photosynthetic microbial stromatolites, which are layered accretionary structures made up of microorganisms. The finding may help scientists figure out how the first lifeforms survived on Earth.
The study was carried o... |
29 March 2012
15:01 GMT |
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An analysis that covered more than four decades of satellite data collected over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) indicates that this critical portion of the Southern Continent is breaking apart at the seams, with potentially devastating consequences.
The WAIS represents a massive section of the Antarctic, and l... |
28 March 2012
10:51 GMT |
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The bottom of the Southern Ocean is home to a type of circulation that moves very cold waters around Antarctica. Over the past few decades, this group of currents began disappearing at an increasingly faster pace, and scientists are currently puzzled over why that is happening.
A mass of water, called the Antarctic... |
23 March 2012
09:18 GMT |
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A group of scientists announce the successful testing of a new technique for mapping the unseen distribution of groundwater and ice in Antarctica. The test was carried out in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region, and went on flawlessly.
Working with funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), scientists at the Un... |
23 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Investigators from the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, led by environmental scientists Steven Chown, demonstrate in a new study that the Southern Continent has been contaminated with the seeds of potentially-invasive plants, which may threaten the extremely fragile Antarctic ecosystem.
While several species... |
6 March 2012
05:53 GMT |
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A NASA study, conducted in October 2011 on one of Antarctica's five largest ice streams, found a huge fracture line in the Pine Island Glacier. A few days ago, the American space agency released a short animation of the rupture zone.
The crack is currently about 18 miles (30 kilometers) long, and about 240 feet... |
29 February 2012
04:23 GMT |
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According to a statement released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), their ship the MY Bob Barker, is currently making headway through the Southern Ocean, after refueling and resupplying in Wellington, New Zealand. Now that everything is in working order, the vessel is returning to chasing the illegal J... |
24 February 2012
03:55 GMT |
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The video game developers at EA Sports are getting closer to the launch date for their snowboarding simulator SSX and they seem to be accelerating the pace for their trailer launches, putting out one which details the environment and the challenges of Antarctica and the exploits or a real-world practitioner of the ar... |
20 February 2012
12:01 GMT |
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If and when robotic spacecraft or human explorers reach the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they could begin exploring it based on data collected by a team of Russian experts currently digging their way into Lake Vostok.
This particular lake is very special. Buried under 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antar... |
14 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Using data supplied by a NASA spacecraft, a team of experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) was recently able to determine that global sea levels rose by 0.5 inches (12 millimeters) between 2003 and 2010. Though this may not seem like much, experts provide frightening statistics.
They say that the vol... |
9 February 2012
03:59 GMT |
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As Russian investigators are getting ready to penetrate Antarctic ice sheets all the way to the submerged Lake Vostok, they are also pondering the implications that their achievement will have on space exploration. They say that the habitat may look just like the ocean on Europa.
This is one of the most interesting... |
7 February 2012
05:24 GMT |
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An interesting phenomenon discovered in Antarctica left scientists baffled. They discovered that members of a set of teardrop-shaped lakes can move very fast across the landscape, at a speed of up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) each day. A walking lake, you might say, how preposterous!
That was my initial reaction as well,... |
2 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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The Pine Island Glacier, known among experts as PIG, is one of Antarctica's five largest ice streams, and one of the most important ice fields in the world. During a study conducted at the location by NASA scientists, back in October 2011, a huge crack was found scarring its surface.
This is nothing but bad ne... |
31 January 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Participants in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program have just concluded their latest expedition to Antarctica, searching for space rock samples that are preserved there. They return home with no less than 300 meteorite samples, making this one of the most successful missions of this sort to date.
G... |
23 January 2012
11:01 GMT |
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While analyzing the areas around a series of hydrothermal vents, researchers discovered a large number of new communities of species that they never even knew existed. The vents surveyed for this research were located at the bottom of the sea, near Antarctica.
The environments that form around these hydrothermal ven... |
4 January 2012
09:23 GMT |
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The Southern Continent is currently the domain of penguins and never ending ice fields, but things were not always like that. In the distant past, researchers uncovered, the forests of Antarctica were roamed by a multitude of dinosaur species. At the time, the continent beneath the South Pole was connected to Austral... |
22 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen reaching the South Pole. The event occurred on December 14, 1911, when the Norwegian explorer and four others managed to reach 90° 0′ latitude south, marking the first time this ever happened in recorded history.
The expedition was ext... |
14 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Scientists in the Antarctic will mark next week's 100-year anniversary of Roald Amundsen's trip to the South Pole on the field, conducting measurements to validate data sent from orbit by the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat mission.
I cannot stop but wonder how those early explorers must have f... |
9 December 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Early November saw Arctic sea ice formation rates dropping significantly, primarily on account of a strong Arctic Sea that criss-crossed its way around the Bering, Beaufort and Chukchi seas. At this point, ice formation is resuming at a normal pace.
Experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) made the a... |
6 December 2011
06:48 GMT |
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The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), a part of the Living Planet Program operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been proven to produce data of the utmost sensitivity and precision. The validation efforts spanned that past two years.
In order to ensure if the advanced microwave technology... |
2 December 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Investigators with the Antarctic Geologic Drilling Program (ANDRILL) say that their latest study conducted in Antarctica reveals a period of warming to have taken place on the Southern Continent about 15.7 million years ago.
The event did not last for very long, only a few thousand years, the team explains. In geolo... |
28 November 2011
05:21 GMT |
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A group of researchers from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States was recently able to determine how a mountain chain buried under miles of ice underneath Antarctica formed.
This has been a mystery for investigators for about 53 years, since the subglacial mountains were ... |
17 November 2011
03:26 GMT |
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Officials at the National Science Foundation and NASA gave the final go-ahead for the launch of a new scientific research campaign on Pine Island Glacier, in Antarctica. The joint research team that will conduct the work is scheduled to be deployed on the field in mid-December.
Pine Island Glacier is one of the mos... |
10 November 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Understanding how ice sheets, glaciers and icebergs are produced and interact in Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica is an essential part of figuring out how Earth's climate will change in the coming decades. Recent flights carried out during the IceBridge 2011 mission significantly contributed to this.
The Ic... |
4 November 2011
04:01 GMT |
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