Antarctica

• Tuesday, October 26th 2010 - 02:44 UTC

  Argentine population in Antarctica 230, including nine families and 16 children

  

  Argentina’s population and housing census which this week took off in Antarctica revealed that 230 people live in the six Argentine bases including nine families and 16 children. The survey was done two days before the official launching in continental Argentina and was considered a “very successful experience”.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Uruguay celebrated 25 years as Consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty

  

  Uruguay celebrated on Thursday the 25 years since being accepted as Consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty. The event coincided this year with the XXXIIIth Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting which for the first time was hosted by Uruguay last May.

• Friday, September 24th 2010 - 03:08 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia fossil reveals the origin of sunflower

  

  Sunflowers are likely to have sprung up about 50 million years ago in Argentine Patagonia, suggests a fossil report according to an article in the current edition of Science magazine.

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 21:27 UTC

  Efforts to protect ozone layer from depletion have been successful, says UN

  

  International efforts to protect the ozone layer shielding life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays have stopped additional ozone losses, potentially averting scores of millions of cases of skin cancer and eye cataracts, according to a new United Nations report released today.

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Chile’s first Antarctic base declared National Historical Monument

  

  Chile’s National Monuments Council has unanimously declared Chile’s Arturo Prat research base naval in Antarctica a National Historical Monument. Their decision was based on the historic strategic value of the base and its functional construction for extreme weather conditions.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 10:59 UTC

  Number of tour ships visiting South Georgia to fall for the second year running

  

  The number of tour ships planning to visit South Georgia in the coming summer looks set to fall for the second year in a row, according to a report in the August edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 04:03 UTC

  Argentina closer to becoming Brazil’s second trade partner

  

  Argentine trade with Brazil in 2010 is going to increase significantly and could replace United States as the second most important importer of Brazilian goods, said Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 23:25 UTC

  HMS Endurance to be replaced with vessel from Norway early 2011

  

  Senior Royal Navy sources have confirmed a vessel from Norway will join the fleet early next year to replace Endurance, which almost sank in 2008, reports The News from Portsmouth.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 06:31 UTC

  Tiny marine animals reveal a possible ancient sea passage in Antarctica

  

  Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. The evidence comes from a study of tiny marine animals living either side of the 2km thick Western Antarctic ice sheet.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 19:27 UTC

  South Sandwich Islands are the emergent tips of huge volcanoes, according to BAS

  

  Earlier this year, geologists on the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ship “RRS James Clark Ross” completed a project to map the sea floor around the volcanic South Sandwich Islands using multi-beam sonar. This completes a project started three years ago, reports the latest edition of the South Georgia newsletter.