Antarctica

• 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.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Tall ships gather at Rio de Janeiro for naval parade

  

  Ships from all navies in the region keep arriving at Río de Janeiro for the Velas Latinoamérica 2022 (Latin American Sails 2022) parade scheduled for Feb. 22

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 18:20 UTC

  Antarctica thick ice conditions challenge RRS Sir David Attenborough and Le Commandant Charcot

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough (SDA) has collaborated with the cruise ship Le Commandant Charcot in its efforts to deliver critical science cargo to the English Coast, Antarctica in support of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Scientific survey of penguins response to climate change in Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica

  

  An international team of scientists, including two from the University of Bath, has just arrived back from an expedition studying penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and Antarctic Peninsula, reports Phys-org.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  HMS Protector officer visits “his island” in Antarctica

  

  No man is an island – apart from Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander Dave Pitt. Currently deployed on survey ship HMS Protector, Lt Cdr Pitt has become possibly the first Pitt to set foot on the Pitt Islands.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Acoustic survey finds twilight zone in Southern ocean an emporium of fish, BAS report

  

  A new study highlights there could be up to four times more fish in the mesopelagic, or ‘twilight’, zone of the Southern Ocean than previously thought. Scientists at British Antarctic Survey and Bristol University discovered that by accounting for different acoustic properties of fish, the biomass, or total weight, of mesopelagic fish is likely to be 1.8 – 3.6 times higher than they previously calculated.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  South Sandwich hidden magnitude-8.2 earthquake source of mysterious 2021 global tsunami

  

  By American Geophysical Union – Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface—too deep to initiate a tsunami—and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have generated a much larger earthquake.