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Montevideo, February 1st 2026 - 15:03 UTC

Antarctica

  • 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.

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

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

    The climate and the environmental history of our planet is archived in the ice

    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.

  • Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 17:05 UTC

    Work to fully reopen Argentina's Petrel Base in Antarctica goes on

    The Puerto Argentino has been named after the Argentine version of Port Stanley, capital of the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands.

    Argentine Navy's ARA Puerto Argentino sloop has sucessfully unloaded supplies and machinery this week at the Petrel Base in Antarctica, it was reported. A self-propelled pontoon built entirely at the Tandanor–CINAR shipyard was used for the reconstruction of this base, which is returning to permanent service after nearly 50 years.

  • Friday, February 18th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

    BAS joins project to overcome shortage of berths for scientific researchers in polar regions

    Dr Sophie Fielding at work on the RRS Discovery

    British Antarctic Survey has teamed up with the National Oceanography Centre and the University of Glasgow to champion the FindAScienceBerth project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. The project will open up more opportunities for early career researchers and technicians, particularly from traditionally excluded groups, to join science research cruises, breaking down barriers for conducting fieldwork in marine science.