At the only school in Antarctica, students balance lessons, play, and survival skills while living alongside their families at Esperanza Base.
Tag: antarctica
President Donald Trump has begun eroding the United States presence in Antarctica by announcing deep funding cuts to his nation’s science and logistics on the icy continent.
Argentina’s Antarctic bases are staffed by isolated and often young scientists confined in close quarters.
The Italian cyclist, Omar Di Felice, is setting out across Antarctica in the ultimate test of athletic endurance and mental fortitude. In an interview with Italian daily La Stampa, Di Felice shares how he keeps himself going during the endless hours of total solitude as well as the activism that fuels his extreme adventures.
As global rivalries and over-fishing impact the seas around South America, countries there must find a common strategy to protect their maritime backyards.
A chilly bit of ‘wealth flaunting’ in time for the Chinese New Year.
The Antarctic, one of the last, unspoiled parts of the natural world, will, like the Amazon, face man’s destructive onslaught unless states take action quickly.
ALLIES CONSIDER GROUND TROOPS IN YEMENAirstrikes against Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen from a Saudi Arabia-led coalition have continued for a second day. At least 39 civilians have been killed in the strikes, according to AFP. Yesterday, Egypt said it was ready to send its navy and ground troops to Yemen to fight the Houthi […]
ANTARCTICA — Researchers have detected a new kind of bird flu in Adelie penguins for the first time, yet the virus does not seem to make them sick. File photo: Gerard LACZ-VWpics/VWPICS/Gerard LACZ The report published Tuesday in mBio, an online journal of the American Society for Microbiology, said that this virus (H11N2) is unlike […]
The coldest recorded temperature, a long test for Fukushima rice and other ways to measure the news that counted.
Categories
Penguins Bask In Global Warming
TVNZ (New Zealand); SCIENCE WORLD REPORT; PLOS ONE JOURNAL Worldcrunch BEAUFORT ISLAND – A new study published this week by U.S. and New Zealand researchers shows that there are actually some winners when it comes to global warming: the Adélie penguins. The study, published in the PLOS One journal, shows that the colony of Adélie […]
ANTARCTIC SHIP RESCUE An operation to rescue the passengers of the Russian ship Akademik Shokalsky was launched this morning, as a Chinese helicopter attempts to ferry tourists and scientists to an Australian ice-breaker, Russia Today reports. The Shokalksky has been trapped in ice since Christmas eve and several evacuation attempts had failed due to poor […]