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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 »

Climate change turning Antarctica's snow green

Martyn Herman, Reuters
Posted at May 20 06:03 PM

Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Read more »

Antarctica's splendid isolation keeps coronavirus at bay

Paulina Abramovich, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 15 07:02 AM

SANTIAGO, Chile - As the planet battles the seemingly inexorable spread of the coronavirus, Antarctica remains the only COVID-19-free continent -- thanks in the main to strict security and not a little luck. Read more »

Extreme isolation: World's last virus-free corners hold tight

Bernadette Carreon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 31 03:47 PM

A coronavirus-free tropical island nestled in the northern Pacific may seem the perfect place to ride out a pandemic -- but residents on Palau say life right now is far from idyllic. Read more »

Floating debris found in search for missing Chilean plane

Paulina Abramovich, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 08:39 AM

The Chilean-flagged Antarctic Endeavour located debris that "could be part of the remains of the sponges of the internal fuel tanks," Air Force Commander Eduardo Mosqueira told a press conference.   Read more »

Cruise industry takes first 'green' steps

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 29 12:56 PM

Most cruise ships run on heavy fuel, which is cheap but full of harmful substances -- such as sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide (NOx) and fine particles -- that increase the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Read more »

Melting glaciers, ice sheets, raising Earth's seas

Patrick Galey and Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 29 11:22 PM

As the planet's polar ice sheets destabilize amid rising temperatures, a landmark UN assessment of Earth's retreating frozen spaces is also set to spell out how melting mountain glaciers will impact humanity in the decades to come. Read more »

Antarctic sea ice in dizzying decline since 2014: study

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 02 09:46 AM

WASHINGTON - After mysteriously expanding for decades, Antarctica's sea ice cover melted by an area four times greater than France in just a few years and now stands at a record low, according to a study published Monday.   Read more »

Antarctica ice loss increases six fold since 1979: study

Kerry Sheridan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 07:04 AM

Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about 6 times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday. Read more »