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Montevideo, March 19th 2026 - 09:36 UTC

Antarctica

  • Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is Found

    “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located” Endurance, Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration, said. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic

    The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

  • Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

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

    Minister Taiana anticipated that the new base will be closely coordinated with the Antarctic Logistic Pole currently developed by the provincial government

    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

    HMS Protector landing party delivered fresh food to the scientists, ensured they were in good health, and reassured them of UK’s support for Ukraine (Pic MoD)

    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

    The automation platform at Halley 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 project started in 2014 looks to deliver to the Argentine navy a vessel for cargo and fuel transport, capable of sailing Antarctic waters

    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

    The report makes special reference to the global impact of climate change in Antarctica throughout its overview of the most significant effects of global warming

    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 presentation by minister Carolina Valdivia follows thirteen years of scientific, technical and bathymetry research

    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

    A rescue center in Punta Colorada, one of several 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

    Ties between China and Australia are headed for a dead end, despite sizeable bilateral trade

    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

    The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass three times faster now than in the 1990s  and contributing to global sea level rise (Pic Reuters)

    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.