Accelerated warming in the Antarctic Peninsula has caused the loss of over 85 percent of the ice shelves surrounding the northern half of the peninsula in the last 20 years, experts say.
The latest collapse occurred on the weekend. The Wilkins ice shelf, an ice sheet up to 250 metres thick located on the southwestern side [...]
Another Ice Shelf Falls Away
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · Antarctic Peninsula, antarctica, global warming, Ice sheet, Ice Shelf, Polar region, Prince Gustav Channel, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Robot Sub Searches For Signs Of Melting 60 Km Into An Antarctic Ice Shelf Cavity
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed in the UK, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions traveling under an Antarctic glacier. Autosub has been exploring Pine Island Glacier, a floating extension of the West Antarctic ice sheet, using sonar scanners to map the seabed and the underside of the ice as it [...]
Tags: · antarctic, Antarctic ice sheet, antarctica, British Antarctic Survey, Climate change, Ice sheet, Pine Island Glacier
Tourism is encroaching on Antarctica.
June 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Fragile continent: penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. Photograph: Corbis
There has been a rush of “see it before it’s gone” tourism in recent years. The advent of “climate tourism“, and its close relative “extinction tourism“, has been reflected in (and encouraged by, no doubt) travel journalism.
Tags: · AIB, antarctica, blog, change, climate, environmental, extinction, inconvenient, tourism, wilderness
Giant sea creatures found in deep waters around Antarctica
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Giant sea creatures, including sea spiders the size of dinner plates and
jellyfish with six-metre long tentacles, have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica.
Huge worms and giant crustaceans have been filmed during an expedition which trawled the floor of the Southern Ocean almost a mile below the surface. Many of the [...]
Tags: · antarctica, creatures, deep, giant, inconvenient, sea, Water
Aliens in Antarctic causing problems? We jest not!!!
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
No, E.T. has not taken residence in Antarctica, but lots of other little aliens have, in the shape of Seeds, spores, mites, lichens and mosses!
Tags: · aliens, antarctica, inconvenient
Grim Ten Years for Antarctica
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Antarctica has lost billions of tonnes of ice in the last ten years according to reports today, contributing to rising sea levels around the world.
Tags: · antarctica, blog, ice, inconvenient, loss
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