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Montevideo, March 28th 2024 - 14:55 UTC

Antarctica

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    BAS Rothera Research Station has new scientific and operational support facility

    The Discovery Building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.

    Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.A new scientific and operational support facility at Rothera Research Station for British Antarctic Survey has been made weather-tight, with the cladding complete and an operations tower installed.

  • Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Argentine ice breaker Almirante Irizar back in Ushuaia signals the end of 2022/23 Antarctica season

    Almirante Irizar

    Argentine icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar is back in Ushuaia following its round of visits to Antarctica stations leaving all ready for the personnel that remained preparing for the long dark winter months. This has also meant the official end of the Argentine Antarctic Campaign 2022/23, which takes place under the operational command of the Joint Antarctic Command.

  • Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Guidance on CCAMLR Fisheries for British registered vessels fishing for profit

    British fishing vessels flying the Red Ensign

    The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has published the Guidance for people planning to fish with UK-registered vessels in waters administered under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

  • Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 08:31 UTC

    South Georgia Government Officer Recruitment

    A view of Gryviken, capital of South Georgia

    The Government of South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands to recruit a Government Officer on a 40-month contract starting in September 2023.

  • Monday, April 17th 2023 - 23:45 UTC

    Ushuaia ready to inaugurate the port's extension and already thinking on a further expansion only for cruise vessels

    The port of Ushuaia on a busy day with cruise vessels and visitors

    Ushuaia, the extreme southern port in the Argentine Tierra del Fuego province is preparing for the inauguration of its extended port and logistics facilities sometime in the coming weeks but is also requesting more funds from the central government given the growing demand for berthing and the fact that cruise vessels are being built ever so larger.

  • Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

    Antarctic Tourism is up, but experts give it a thumbs down

    Experts from Antarctic ecologists to marine scientists are sounding the alarm about the environmental impacts of that swelling human presence

    By Jen Rose Smith (*) – Even after Captain James Cook first sailed below the Antarctic Circle 250 years ago, icily inhospitable Antarctica stayed quiet for a long, long time. The only continent with no native human population, it remained a place apart, where occasional expeditions and intrepid researchers contended with harsh and sometimes deadly conditions.

  • Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    ARA Irízar off to final stage of Antarctic campaign

    The Irízar also unloaded Antarctic waste and other materials in Ushuaia

    Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar Captain Carlos Recio announced that the unit had “complied with all the tasks emanating from the operations order of the Joint Antarctic Commander, also carrying out more than 600 movements of scientific and military personnel between the different joint Antarctic bases” and was therefore on her way to the last stage of the ”Antarctic Summer Campaign (CAV) 2022/2023,” it was reported.

  • Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil confident China's beef market is recovering, but at lower prices

    According to data from the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), the ton of beef was sold for US$ 4,822.90, on average, at the beginning of this month

    The price of beef (fresh, chilled or frozen) exported by Brazil mainly to China in the first week of February maintained the downward trend of the last eight months, but, according to analysts, the trend now is for prices to recover in the rest of the year, although to levels lower than those observed in June.

  • Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    BAS: A six coins series of Antarctic glaciers named after solar system planets

    There are a total of six glaciers named after planets in Antarctica and the following with be featured in this series: Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Venus.

    Pobjoy Mint has announced a brand-new 2023 two-pound coin series issued on behalf of the British Antarctic Territory. The six-coin series will feature the Antarctic glaciers named after planets of the solar system starting with the Mars Glacier.

  • Monday, March 20th 2023 - 15:54 UTC

    Antarctic sea ice hitting historic lows

    Scientists need more time to affirm whether this phenomenon is due to climate change or not

    A website specialized in weather news published this past weekend a report stating that Antarctic sea ice reached another historic low after a trend of ice loss in recent years seems to have come to stay because while Antarctic sea ice shows an almost flat trend, the minima appear to have gained on that trend.