Antarctica

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Conference on how increasing tourism threatens Antarctica

  Steadily growing tourism is beginning to have an adverse impact in Antarctica. This year, nearly 30,000 visitors are expected to make the trek to the southernmost continent, four times the figure just ten years ago.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Extensive snow areas of west Antarctica suffered melting

  

  A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures.

• Monday, May 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Stray Magellanic penguin swims 5.000 kilometres to Peru

  

  A Magellanic penguin whose natural habitat is the extreme south of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands has strayed thousands of miles and swam all the way to Peru's Paracas national reserve.

• Thursday, May 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Winners of North Pole race pledge funds to UN refugee agency

  

  Two intrepid young Britons have won an Arctic sprint to the magnetic North Pole which they say should boost their chances of raising $495,000 for the United Nations refugee agency

• Wednesday, May 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Recovery of the “Irizar” could take more than two years

  

  Damages suffered by the Argentine icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” when fire broke out on board, are far more serious than originally announced and full repairs could take more than the estimated two years revealed this week the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina “thankful” for HMS Endurance support offer

  

  Argentina officially thanked this Monday Great Britain's cooperation offer in support of Argentine Antarctic activities.

• Saturday, April 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian support for Argentina's 2007/08 Antarctic campaign

  

  Argentina has decided to accept the Brazilian offer of the polar vessel Ary Rongel for the coming Antarctic campaign 2007/08 next December which means the British option has been discarded.

• Thursday, April 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  British support to replace Argentina's stricken “Irizar”

  

  Britain has offered Argentina support for its Antarctic operations following the recent fire that broke out in icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” and which could force the vessel out of action for almost two years.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” ablaze in the South Atlantic

  

  Argentine icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” is ablaze in the South Atlantic and all the crew has abandoned ship in an orderly way, with no loss of life or injured, reported the Argentine Navy Wednesday in a press conference in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Possible weather pattern changes as El Niño becomes La Niña

  

  The most recent El Niño, the periodic weather pattern that can have repercussions around the world from torrential rains and floods in the Americas and Africa to droughts and brush fires in Australia and Asia, has now ended and a transition to its mirror image, La Niña, is a substantial possibility, according to the latest United Nations forecast.