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Antarctic ocean currents headed for collapse: study

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Mar 31 06:48 AM

A new study says that rapidly melting Antarctic ice could impact oceans 'for centuries to come.' Read more »

Sea ice in Antarctic at record low: US data center

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 28 06:52 AM

Melting of the sea ice is problematic because it helps accelerate global warming. Read more »

Antarctica sea ice melts to a record low

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 17 07:47 AM

The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures. Read more »

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise: study

Kelly Macnamara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 07:07 AM

Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise, with potentially "ominous" implications over this century as temperatures continue to rise, according to a study published Monday. Read more »

Study warns of Antarctica ice sheet threat to sea rise

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 11 04:10 AM

The study did note that the worst scenarios projected were 'very unlikely'. Read more »

COVID-19 hits Antarctic research base, 9 evacuated

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 07:52 AM

For the first time since the start of the pandemic the coronavirus has reached an Argentine research base in Antarctica, causing the evacuation of nine unvaccinated staff who tested positive for COVID-19. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 7, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 07 11:59 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Antarctica research station gets COVID-19 vaccines

Mathew Philips, British Antarctic Survey via AFP
Posted at Oct 07 10:15 PM

A delivery of coronavirus vaccines arrived in Antarctica to inoculate British researchers stationed in the polar wilderness over winter. Read more »

World's largest iceberg birthed in Antarctica

Steve Gorman, Reuters
Posted at May 20 10:07 AM

A giant slab of ice with a surface area that spans 4,320 square km has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg currently afloat in the world, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.  Read more »

Norway penguins get vaccinated too vs bird flu

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 09 06:55 AM

Twenty-nine gentoo penguins at Norway's Bergen Aquarium have had a tarp stretched over their pen since early December after cases of a highly infectious bird flu strain, H5N8, were detected in the country.   Read more »

Coronavirus reaches end of earth as first outbreak hits Antarctica

Natalia A. Ramos Miranda, Reuters
Posted at Dec 23 05:15 AM

SANTIAGO - The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile's military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff from a remote research station surrounded by ocean and icebergs. Read more »

Antarctica's glacier-damming ice shelves at risk of crumbling

Marlowe Hood,Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 27 05:45 AM

PARIS - More than half the ice shelves ringing Antarctica that prevent huge glaciers from sliding into the ocean and lifting sea levels are at risk of crumbling due to climate change, researchers said Wednesday.   Read more »

South Pole warmed 3 times the global rate in last 30 years: study

Cassandra Garrison, Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 05:17 AM

At the South Pole, considered the coldest point on Earth, temperatures are rising fast. Read more »