Tag: Antarctic

• Saturday, February 8th 2020 - 11:09 UTC

  Greenpeace blames global warming for record temperatures in Antarctica

  

  Global warming is to blame for Argentine Antarctica recording its hottest day since readings began, Greenpeace said on Friday. Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at midday Thursday at the research station Esperanza base, the highest temperature on record since 1961, according to the National Meteorological Service.

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 06:20 UTC

  Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctic with BAS Halley Station is calving

  

  Glaciology experts have issued evidence that a large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station, is about break off. The rifting started several years ago and is now approaching its final phase.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Falklands' penguins at risk from Brexit and an end to EU conservation funding

  

  The Falkland Islands have warned that a million penguins are at risk from a funding black hole caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union. The Islands rely on European conservation projects to care and protect the penguin colonies, rookeries, in its shores. But with the U.K. fast approaching Brexit Day in March 2019, Falklands' lawmaker Teslyn Barkman has urged clarity on the future of Islands’ flippered friends.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 07:42 UTC

  No casualties reported as Chilean Antarctica base goes down in flames

  

  The Antarctic Maritime Government building in King George Island went down in flames at dawn Thursday. Nobody was injured and maritime traffic support went on with help from the INACh and the Air Force.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  South Georgia declared rat-free: four year successful program to eradicate invasive rodents

  

  A Dundee-based charity has succeeded in its epic mission to declare a sub-Antarctic island rodent-free for the first time since humans arrived more than 200 years ago. In 2011, the South Georgia Heritage Trust started the world’s largest project to remove the invasive rats and mice to save South Georgia’s wildlife, including threatened pipits and pintails.

• 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.

• 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.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  BAS targets Antarctica marine ecosystem under calved iceberg: nine-country team takes off from Falklands

  

  A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), heads to Antarctica this week (14 February) to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that’s been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for up to 120,000 years. The iceberg known as A-68, which is four times of London, calved off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 09:29 UTC

  Antarctica cruise revolution: hybrid electric LNG powered icebreaker

  

  French luxury shipping line Ponant announced a world first with a hybrid electric-LNG powered icebreaker. The luxury vessel promises to deliver around 300 passengers to places never before visited by cruise passengers in ultra-luxury – and with the least damage to the environment.

• Thursday, December 14th 2017 - 04:30 UTC

  Mt Hope is the tallest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory with 3.239 meters

  

  Britain has a new highest mountain after new data showed measurements from old overland surveys were inaccurate. It was thought until this point that Mount Jackson was the tallest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory at 3,184m above sea level. However, new satellite data by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) shows Mount Hope is the tallest mountain, at 3,239m.