Tag: Antartica

• Wednesday, December 8th 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Antarctic luxury cruise vessel heading for Ushuaia after suffering engine failure

  

  A Maltese-flagged cruise ship with 160 people on board which on Tuesday declared an emergency as it was sailing across the Drake Passage off the southern tip of South America is limping back to Ushuaia, its port of destination, according to a release from the Argentine Navy.

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 21:27 UTC

  Efforts to protect ozone layer from depletion have been successful, says UN

  

  International efforts to protect the ozone layer shielding life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays have stopped additional ozone losses, potentially averting scores of millions of cases of skin cancer and eye cataracts, according to a new United Nations report released today.