Antarctica

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 05:29 UTC

  Argentina and Chile coordinate joint scientific research in South Atlantic

  

  Outstanding researchers and scientists from Argentina and Chile in the fields of marine sciences, fisheries Antarctica and technology innovation met this week in Buenos Aires for a day's work coordinating the scientific efforts of both countries.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:29 UTC

  Beware: China announces plan to seven-fold increase Antarctic krill catches

  

  Conservation groups and scientists worry that China’s push to boost its harvest of krill -- a shrimp-like creature used for aquaculture feed and human supplements -- may leave Antarctica’s whales, seals and penguins struggling to survive. China’s leaders say they want a seven-fold increase in krill production, according to a recent report in the state-owned China Daily newspaper.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:21 UTC

  Number of tourists visiting Antarctica was down, according to IAATO

  

  The number of adventurous tourists visiting Antarctica dipped in the 2014-15 austral season but is expected to bounce back this year, according to visitor totals released by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO).

• Tuesday, April 28th 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  IAATO 2015 convention starts today in Rotterdam - Falkland Islands Tourist Board Management in Attendance

  

  Tony Mason, Director, International Communications and Stephanie Middleton, Interim CEO of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board are in Rotterdam, Netherlands this week attending the IAATO conference where key issues affecting the region will be discussed.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 16:12 UTC

  Falklands, South Atlantic islands, Antarctica included in new Tierra del Fuego official map

  

  Argentina's most southern province identified as Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic islands is redesigning its internal political limits with the purpose of “contributing to the territorial sovereignty of the Nation”, according to a bill sent to the provincial legislative by governor Fabiana Ríos and drafted with help from the Malvinas Question Advisory Observatory.

• Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:52 UTC

  Antarctica floating ice shelves thinning at an unexpected accelerated rate

  

  Scientists have their best view yet of the status of Antarctica's floating ice shelves and they find them to be thinning at an accelerating rate. Fernando Paolo and colleagues used 18 years of data from European radar satellites to compile their assessment.

• Monday, March 23rd 2015 - 22:51 UTC

  New Antarctic affairs academic journal, sponsored by ASOC and Agenda Antarctica

  

  The Journal of Antarctic Affairs is the new academic magazine of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) and Agenda Antarctica. The Journal aims to publish and disseminate the most prominent and influential research in relation to Antarctica by publishing articles, reviews and official documents in both English and Spanish twice a year.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2015 - 13:17 UTC

  First call for proposals from Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund

  

  The Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund (AWR) issued this week its first call for proposals, inviting applications from scientific researchers who can aid in determining the impact of the krill fishing industry on the Antarctic marine ecosystem. Such research will serve to ensure ecosystem protection, while improving the management basis for the fishery.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  HMS Protector in cleanup and surveying tasks in South Georgia

  

  The men and women of HMS Protector have helped the South Georgia Government by carrying out a beach cleanup and glacier survey. 700 miles east of the Falklands, South Georgia is a crescent shaped island with magnificent scenery and wildlife. But over the years debris from several shipwrecks has been washed up on the island’s beaches.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

  Falklands historic link to Antarctica exploration unveiled in unique memorial

  

  The Falkland Islands historic link as the gateway for British Antarctic exploration was acknowledged this week with the dedication in Stanley's Dockyard Point of the southern component of a unique memorial to the 28 men and one woman of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and before that the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who have perished in the Antarctic since the establishment by the British Government of the first permanent research base there in 1944.