Antarctica

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Founding stone for relocated naval base in Ushuaia with its own wharf

  

  Argentine Minister of Defense Jorge Taiana and the governor of Tierra del Fuego province, Gustavo Melella laid the founding stone of the Ushuaia Integral Naval Base, which will replace the current naval base, and will be built in two phases including 15.000 square meters military wharf.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  HMS Protector in solidarity and supplies visit to Ukraine base in Antarctica

  

  Royal Navy sailors showed their support for and solidarity with the people of Ukraine when they called on one of the nation’s most remote outposts. The Navy’s sole icebreaker HMS Protector dropped in on 21 scientists who maintain the polar research station of Vernadsky in Antarctica to check on their welfare.

• Saturday, March 5th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Automation in place at BAS Halley VI Research Station

  

  In late February, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley VI Research Station closed for the 2021/22 season. The season saw some major developments at the station, including several significant improvements and additions to its automated systems.

• Saturday, March 5th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Argentina approves funds for a new polar vessel, to be built with Finnish consultants

  

  The Argentine government has approved the funds for the design and construction of a new polar vessel to complement the activities of ice breaker ARA Almirante Irizar in her task of delivering provisions to the Argentine thirteen Antarctic bases. Works and design will be undertaken by the government-owned shipyard Tandanor and Finland's consulting firm Aker Arctic, with the funds allotted totaling 69 million Argentine pesos ( some US$ 6,5 million) and 7 million Euros.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  IPCC reveals global impact of human induced climate change

  

  A new report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on Monday 28 February, has outlined the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Chile submits report on the extended continental shelf west of the Antarctic Peninsula

  

  The Chilean foreign minister Carolina Valdivia on Monday submitted to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf the report on the extended continental shelf to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. This is closely linked to Chile's role in scientific research and conservation issues.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Rescuing juvenile Magellan penguins along the Uruguayan coast

  

  Uruguayan marine life protection organizations have come across an unexpected number of juvenile penguins on their annual transit to less frigid waters in neighboring southern Brazil.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  China decries Australia's Antarctica plans

  

  The Government of China has voiced its concerns over Australia’s US$ 570 million plan to boost its scientific and strategic presence in Antarctica, which would involve a fleet of surveillance drones and long-range helicopters in the area.

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 07:47 UTC

  Antarctic sea ice set of a new record low minimum, Greenpeace

  

  Greenpeace reports that data from the National Sea Ice Data Center shows that this year Antarctic sea ice will reach the lowest extent on satellite record. Preliminary measurements show the sea ice around the continent has surpassed the previous record minimum set, in March 2017, of 2.1 million square kilometers, dropping to 1.98 million square kilometers on Sunday 20 February.

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Ice core drilling in Antarctica to discover environment evolution over the last 1,5 million years

  

  The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth. By analyzing a deep ice core extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists aim to find out information on the evolution of the temperatures, the composition of the atmosphere, and on the carbon cycle over the last 1.5 million years.