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EU, environment advocates, call for world’s largest protected area in Antarctica

Jan 13, 2018

A campaign is growing to designate the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary along the Antarctic coast, creating an area five times the size of Germany in the Weddell Sea and along the Antarctic Peninsula, accordi...

Antarctic ice shelf will break soon, according to scientists, releasing an iceberg the size of Delaware into the ocean

West Side Story

Jul 6, 2017

Environment, Science, World

Scientists are predicting that a massive iceberg, 2,000 square miles in area and roughly the size of Delaware, will soon break off of Antarctica, floating into the Weddell Sea near the tip of South America. A c...

Researchers show alarming concern over the rapid thinning of Antarctic Ice Shelves

Cody Gash

Mar 27, 2015

Innovation

The thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18 percent according to a recent study. This has resulted to the depletion of the bulwark that prevents the permanent coll...

Submersible Linux-powered ice robot says Antarctic ice thicker than thought

Charles Omedo

Nov 25, 2014

Innovation

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), called SeaBed, used by British, American, and Australian scientists to scan Antarctic ice layers in the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and Wilkes areas of the Antarctic has tra...

100 years old notebook of explorer Robert Scott found in excursion at Antarctica

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 25, 2014

Innovation

A notebook from Robert Scott’s Antarctic expedition has been found after a hundred years, trapped in the ice of the frozen continent, New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust said. It belonged to scientist George...

NASA reports that Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels

Charles Omedo

Oct 9, 2014

Innovation

“The planet as a whole is doing what was expected in terms of warming. Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected, but just like with global warming, not every location with sea ice will have a downward trend...

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