Tag: Antartica

• Saturday, May 18th 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentine Antarctic campaigns disarray and corruption claims turn off recruiting

  

  Argentina’s Antarctica campaigns are losing their flair and the country is having difficulties to fill vacancies for the 2013/14 season. This follows repeated claims of alleged corruption and delays in supplying the bases and stations plus an overall lack of support from the Defence ministry.

• Friday, May 10th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands’ denies political impact of Argentine South Georgia scientific cruise

  

  News this week that Argentina had decided to undertake fisheries research in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is not connected in any way to the Falklands, Acting Governor Sandra Tyler-Haywood has assured.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 22:59 UTC

  Chilean navy tugboat checking Antarctica area where Chinese factory ship went down

  

  A tugboat from the Chilean Navy equipped for environmental emergencies is trying to determine the position where the remains of the Chinese factory ship Kai Xin went down in Antarctica last week after catching fire and left adrift by the 97 member crew rescued by a Norwegian vessel and a reefer.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 21:20 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey has a new director: climate expert Professor Jane Francis

  

  Professor Jane Francis has been appointed as the new Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Ms Francis, a geologist by training, is Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds where she is currently Dean of the Faculty of Environment.

• Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 20:25 UTC

  Argentina supplies Antarctic base by air with contracted Russian aircraft

  

  The Argentine Ministry of Defence announced it had successfully finished the supply of provisions to the Antarctic Base Belgrano II, the most austral of the country’s outposts. The two-week operation in nine legs, depending on weather conditions, was done by air parachuting provisions.

• Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  Adelie penguins filmed in underwater hunting skills with miniature video cameras

  

  Miniature cameras attached to a penguin's head have given Japanese scientists a bird's eye view of the creature's incredible underwater hunting skills. Using video cameras weighing just 33 grams and equipped with accelerometers, depth gauges and thermometers, researchers were able to see exactly what the Adelie penguin sees when it goes out to catch krill and other prey in its native Antarctica.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  HMS Protector rescues cruise liner at risk of becoming trapped in Antarctica ice

  

  A Norwegian cruise liner at risk of becoming trapped in thick ice off the coast of Antarctica was guided to safety by the Royal Navy in a two-hour operation, an incident which occurred a week ago and has only emerged.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina strongly protests UK’s naming Queen Elizabeth land in Antarctica

  

  Argentina strongly protested on Friday Britain's decision to name a vast swath of Antarctica as Queen Elizabeth Land. The Foreign ministry handed a formal protest note to British Ambassador John Freeman in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 19:50 UTC

  Polar ice sheets melting have added 11mm to global sea levels since 1992

  

  Nearly two dozen research teams collaborated to study polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and discovered definitively that they have added 11mm to global sea levels since 1992, melting ever more quickly.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 04:22 UTC

  Cameron and Piñera discuss Falklands, Antarctic cooperation and confirm close links

  

  Visiting Chilean president Sabastian Piñera and PM David Cameron reaffirmed the two countries long standing close relations, pledged to increase trade and acknowledged their views on the Falkland Islands and the coming referendum during a meeting on Thursday at 10 Downing Street.