Antarctica

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:40 UTC

  Chinese port in Tierra del Fuego controversy: Argentine media and UK blamed for spreading “fake news”

  

  The head of the Malvinas Secretariat from the Tierra del Fuego province, southern Argentina, blames the media, the opposition, the UK, and all those pleased with the current status of the South Atlantic for the spread of “fake news” allegedly reporting that China will be setting a military base and naval outpost in Tierra del Fuego.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:16 UTC

  New iceberg calved into Antarctica's Weddel Sea

  

  A 1,550 km2 iceberg broke off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, British scientists reported Monday. “The 1,550-square-kilometer block of ice broke off the ice shelf between 7 pm and 8 pm Sunday after a strong tide widened an existing crack in the ice shelf,” the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explained.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 11:47 UTC

  Lula's trip to Argentina to include Antarctica deal

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's trip to Argentina next week will include the signing of a treaty for scientific and logistical cooperation between the two countries' Antarctic stations, Agencia Brasil reported. A gas pipeline will also be on the agenda with President Alberto Fernández.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  British Antarctic Territory release of a stamp featuring an Emperor penguin chick

  

  The British Antarctic Territory has announced the release of a beautiful new Airmail Postcard Rate stamp featuring an Emperor penguin chick. This new addition to the 2018 Penguins and Chicks Definitive issue has been released to replenish stocks of the existing 2016 postcard rate coil stamps, which will shortly be exhausted.

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

  New Emperor Penguin colony discovered in Antarctica with satellite mapping

  

  Scientists have discovered a new emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite mapping technology. This new colony makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, with exactly half having been discovered by satellite imagery.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Darwin Plus Local funding scheme for South Georgia projects' applicants

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is proud to promote and encourage science that contributes to developing and upholding best-practice environmental management and that supports the active management and good governance of the Territory.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector play football at the most southerly and rugged pitch: South Georgia

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy went head to head with British Antarctic Survey staff during a game of football on the most southerly – and arguably the worst – pitch in the world. The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole, to be precise.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  BAS and WWF “Walrus Detectives” project with satellite surveying to understand the Arctic marine mammals

  

  This week British Antarctic Survey and World Wide Fund, WWF, are inviting the public to become ‘walrus detectives’ and get involved in the Walrus from Space project to help with vital research to enable a better understanding of these Arctic marine mammals.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  HMS Protector scans active underwater volcanoes on Antarctic edge for tsunami research

  

  Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the edge of Antarctica. Navy icebreaker HMS Protector has used her state-of-the-art sensors to scan peaks in the South Sandwich Islands – one of the world’s most remote territories.

• Tuesday, January 10th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Is Mass Cruise Tourism Safe for Antarctic Ecosystems?

  

  By Elizabeth Leane, Anne Hardy, Can Seng Ooi, Carolyn Philpott, Hanne E.F. Nielsen and Katie Marx – As the summer sun finally arrives for people in the Southern Hemisphere, more than 100,000 tourists will head for the ice. Traveling on one of more than 50 cruise ships, they will brave the two-day trip across the notoriously rough Drake Passage below Patagonia, destined for the polar continent of Antarctica.