Antarctica

• Tuesday, December 9th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Host of Man vs. Wild series injured in Antarctic expedition

  

  Adventurer and host of the popular Man vs Wild series Bear Grylls has injured his shoulder during an Antarctic expedition. According to CNN the 34-year-old former SAS soldier was being flown back to the UK to receive medical attention.

• Friday, December 5th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Antarctic cruise passengers rescued and oil leak contained

  

  All aboard a cruise ship stranded off Antarctica are “in perfect health” and 87 (82 passengers and 5 crew members) have been rescued reported on Friday the Chilean Navy. The rest of the crew remained on board to help with rescue operations.

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  South Orkney “richer than Galapagos in sea species”

  

  The first comprehensive inventory of the sea and land animals living in a polar region has been carried out by British and German scientists. A team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Hamburg University found that Antarctica's South Orkney Islands were surprisingly rich in life. More than 1,200 species were counted, including five new to science.

• Friday, November 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay sponsors Portugal to Antarctic Treaty; Chavez out

  

  Uruguay has no plans to lease or share one of its Antarctic outposts with Venezuela or to sponsor Venezuela's incorporation to the Antarctic Treaty, said Foreign Affairs Secretary Gonzalo Fernandez during a hearing before Parliament.

• Thursday, November 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Spain's Antarctic season 08/09 takes off in Punta Arenas

  

  On Friday the Spanish Navy oceanographic vessel Las Palmas calls in Punta Arenas to officially begin Spain's Antarctic 2008/09 season. The vessel left from Cartagena last October 8 for the twelfth Antarctic season incursion and will be operating from Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Arctic icecap thinning faster than expected even in

  British researchers have found that the Arctic icecap is now shrinking at an unprecedented rate even in winter, a development that could mean that the summer icecap may vanish within a decade.

• Wednesday, October 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Current ozone hole over Antarctica close to 2006 record

  The 2008 ozone hole over Antarctica is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006, according to the European Space Agency.

• Friday, September 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Better later than never”, Economist on Cristina Kirchner

  The recent announcement of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to consider a proposal for a settlement with defaulted sovereign bond holders and other orthodox approaches to economics have merited an article from The Economist, “Better later than never”.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil drops to 100 USD; Saudis say market “well balanced”

  

  Crude oil fell to a five-month low in New York and Brent oil in London dropped below 100 US dollars a barrel as traders remained confident that the OPEC meeting in Vienna would not decide to reduce production.

• Monday, September 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chinese observatory in Antarctica's highest peak

  

  China will set up a new observatory station in Antarctica at the region's highest peak within two years an official from the Polar Research Institute of China announced in Beijing reports the country's news agency Xinhua.