Antarctica

• Tuesday, May 1st 2018 - 10:05 UTC

  Argentina creates an Antarctica Joint Command, under Defense guidance

  

  Argentina has created the Antarctica Joint Command, which will operate under the orbit of the Ministry of Defense and be responsible for conducting operations in Antarctica, and areas of interest, in a continuous and permanent way.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Tons of frozen micro-plastics found trapped in the floating ice of the Arctic

  

  Record levels of micro-plastics have been found trapped inside sea ice floating in the Arctic. Ice cores gathered across the Arctic Ocean reveal micro-plastics at concentrations two to three times higher than previously recorded. As sea ice melts with climate change, the plastic will be released back into the water, with unknown effects on wildlife, say German scientists.

• Thursday, April 12th 2018 - 07:57 UTC

  Icebreaker Irizar returns from its first Antarctica campaign in ten years

  

  Argentina's icebreaker Almirante Irizar is back in Buenos Aires at the end of its first Antarctic campaign in ten years, following the fire that almost knocked the Finnish built vessel out of action. She left on 26 December and completed 107 days in the high seas and Antarctica's ice.

• Sunday, March 18th 2018 - 10:36 UTC

  Ushuaia at Seatrade in Miami praised for the port services improvements

  

  The port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego expects to end the current 2017/18 cruise season with over 339 calls, fifty more than in the previous season, revealed governor Rosana Bertone who attended the SeaTrade International Fair in Miami, the world's major event of the industry.

• Tuesday, March 13th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentine icebreaker rescues US scientists stranded in an ice island

  

  A group of US scientists who were stranded in an ice-bound island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula were rescued on Sunday by an Argentine icebreaker, US and Argentine authorities announced Monday.

• Friday, March 9th 2018 - 04:38 UTC

  Plan B for RRS James Clark Ross mission to Antarctica Larsen C Ice Shelf

  

  Heavy sea ice conditions have thwarted a science mission from reaching the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica from which a large iceberg broke off in July 2017. A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are travelling on board the RRS James Clark Ross. Sea ice, up to 4-5 meters thick, has made progress for the ship very slow and on 28 February) the ship’s captain made the difficult decision not to continue.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  NASA satellites help discover super-colony of Adelie penguins in Antarctica Danger Islands

  

  A thriving “hotspot” of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists. The first bird census of the Danger Islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports.

• Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Climate change will force King Penguins to move after food or face heavy losses

  

  Global warming is on track to wipe out 70% of the world's King penguins by century's end, putting the regal birds on a path towards extinction, researchers warned on Monday. As climate change drives away the fish and squid upon which the flightless creatures depend, the penguins must swim further afield to find sustenance for their hungry hatchlings on land.

• Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 11:20 UTC

  BAS team leaves Falklands to explore Antarctica marine ecosystem hidden for 120.000 years

  

  A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey set off on Wednesday to explore a mysterious marine ecosystem that has lain hidden under an ice shelf for up to 120,000 years.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  SCAR celebrates sixty year of international collaboration in Antarctica

  

  The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), has celebrated six decades of successful international collaboration. Since its first meeting in The Hague on February 1958, SCAR has grown an international network of thousands of scientists who share a common ambition to carry out Antarctic science for the benefit of society.