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
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The board of directors at the University of Chicago's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has been maintaining the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clock face meant to express how well humanity is doing, since 1947. Yesterday, it was moved to show just five minutes until midnight.
The previous mark was set in Ja... |
11 January 2012
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In one of the first studies of its type ever conducted, researchers were able to discover a string of volcanoes underneath the frigid water of Antarctica. More than a dozen such volcanoes were found, of which some are still active. Others reach up to 3,000 meters (roughly 10,000 feet) in altitude, even though their e... |
13 July 2011
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The Galapagos Islands, a group of islands isolated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and now officially a UNESCO World Heritage Site, may have less biodiversity than the sub-Antarctic island called South Georgia, which is only now beginning to reveal the myriad of species it houses. Charles Darwin is primarily resp... |
27 May 2011
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Antarctica was until recently the most pristine continent in the world, but that situation is currently changing. Research scientists, tourists, and just about anyone who sets foot around the South Pole, are carrying bacteria and other organisms that are not indigenous to this area. For all intents and purposes, we a... |
29 April 2011
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Between recent ice ages, temperatures in Antarctica apparently increased significantly, a new body of researches shows. This has led scientists to conclude that the Eastern part of the Southern continent, which is currently melting faster due to global warming, also did so in the past. This demonstrates an ongoing su... |
19 November 2009
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Three weeks after the collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf bridge, which connected mainland Antarctica to Charcot Island, satellite pictures reveal that icebergs have begun to calve from the large stretch of ice, indicating that the entire ensemble has become unstable and could soon collapse into the water. The northern... |
29 April 2009
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A new joint scientific study in the Antarctic, involving researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (AS) and the NASA American space agency, has revealed that the growing extent of sea ice that has been recorded at the South Pole over the last 30 years is not a result of a cooling climate, as critics of global war... |
22 April 2009
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It is the first time when an unpiloted Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle is used in the antarctic continent to gather data of the harsh environment. The UAV was developed by a British-German collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the Technical University of Braunschweig, and it has completed successfully al... |
21 March 2008
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