Antarctica

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 01:05 UTC

  “The ship beneath the Sea”, Shackleton's Endurance

  

  “Well, what about the Endurance,” was the seed of the challenge suggested by a good friend of maritime archeologist Mensun Bound when they met in south Kensington at Caffe Nero, for a coffee in the summer of August 2012.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia experts determine cause of death of whales found on shores

  

  Experts have determined that the cause of the recent death of 30 whales in the Valdés Peninsula, in the Argentine province of Chubut, was a harmful algal bloom also referred to as “red tide.” The findings of the dead mammals took place between late September and early October.

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentine NCO survives sledgehammer attack at Marambio Base

  

  An Argentine military man assaulted his superior non-commissioned officer “with a blunt instrument” while he was sleeping at the Marambio Base in Antarctica.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Oldest marine DNA in Antarctica retrieved

  

  Researchers from Australia's University of Tasmania have reportedly found the oldest marine DNA in history in the Scotia Sea in Antarctica, according to an article carried by the journal Nature Communications. The study also involved scientists from the University of Bonn.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Chilean Senator outraged at Argentine ministers' Antarctica trip

  

  A Chilean opposition Senator has voiced his concern over the recent presence of Argentine Ministers Jorge Taiana, Daniel Filmus, and Carla Vizotti in Antarctica, as both countries' claims over the territory overlap

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Suggested improvements to the Argentine toothfish fisheries if an MSC certification is to be achieved

  

  Argentine scientists from INIDEP have presented a paper on toothfish biologic-catches in the Argentine dissostichus eleginoides fisheries, based on data collected from operations in 2021. The information for the paper originated in official Argentine stats data and that supplied by observers on longliners with ITQ for the species.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Argentine ministers convene in Antarctica

  

  Argentine Ministers Daniel Filmus (Science), Carla Vizzotti (Health), and Jorge Taiana (Defense) convened at Antarctica's Marambio Base to announce the construction of three new laboratories and other undertakings in the area.

• Friday, October 7th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  IAATO advances climate strategy and collects all Antarctica visitors fuel data consumption

  

  Members of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) will for the first time submit seasonal fuel consumption data to the Association’s secretariat as part of a unanimous pledge to create a climate change strategy for Antarctic tourism.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine scientists studying death of Southern right whales on the Patagonia coast

  

  Members of Argentina's INIDEP, the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, are working in Puerto Madryn to determine the cause of the sudden increase in the death of the Southern right whale, with dead corpses along the coast of the Valdes Peninsula, a mating and rest place for the migrating cetaceans.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 13:55 UTC

  Science tries to solve the mystery of lantern-fish, but for King penguins they are a delicious snack

  

  A new study, led by British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol, provides the first evidence that a controversial evolutionary process may be responsible for lantern-fishes becoming one of the most diverse families of fish in the deep sea.