Antarctica

• Wednesday, August 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Polar bears detected swimming in high seas miles from shore

  

  An aerial survey by United States government scientists in Alaska's Chukchi Sea has recently found at least nine polar bears swimming in open water, with one at least 60 miles from shore, raising concern among wildlife experts about their survival, reports Science Daily.

• Sunday, August 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine economy suffering “fatigue”, admits government

  

  The Argentine economy seems to be suffering of “fatigue” according to the latest official reports and which had been anticipated by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner earlier in the week.

• Thursday, July 31st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguins wash up closer to equator in Bahia State, Brazil

  

  Penguins from frigid waters near the bottom of the world are washing up closer to the equator than ever before, Brazilian wildlife authorities said Wednesday.

• Monday, July 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  An exhibition on South Georgia takes off in Cambridge

  

  An exhibition entitled “Governing South Georgia: A century of managing marine resources” opens at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge next July 16th and by early 2009 should visit the Falkland Islands before finally ending in Grytviken.

• Sunday, June 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Fossilized burrows of tetrapods found in Antarctica

  For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods -- any land vertebrates with four legs or leg-like appendages -- in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago, according to a paper from a research funded by the US National Science Foundation and involving several US universities.

• Sunday, June 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  SnoMotes rovers to help collect data on melting ice shelves

  US researchers from the universities of Georgia and Pennsylvania have created specially designed robots, called SnoMotes which will help collect information on the world's ice melting shelves in the Arctic and Antarctica.

• Monday, May 12th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Majority of Antarctica operators stop off in the Falklands

  

  THE annual International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) conference was held in Punta Del Este, Uruguay this year.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  All Antarctic ship operators now belong to IAATO

  

  Unity, a more agile membership structure and the fact that for the first time all Antarctic ship operators belong to IAATO are some of the outstanding results of the latest general assembly of the organization which this time was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Benchmark US ruling on polar bears (and global warming)

  

  A US federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide by May 15 whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming. The decision was hailed by conservation groups which have been hounding the US government on the issue for years.

• Monday, April 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Protestors win half victory over Japanese whaling fleet

  Japan blamed the failure of its whaling fleet to net little more than half its target catch this year to “relentless interference” from environmentalists and described the situation as “regrettable”.