
World / Science & Health Mar 26, 2022
Thinning Antarctic ice shelf finally crumbles after heat wave
Satellite images show the 1,200 square-kilometer Conger Ice Shelf in east Antarctica collapsed completely on or around March 15.
Thinning Antarctic ice shelf finally crumbles after heat wave
Satellite images show the 1,200 square-kilometer Conger Ice Shelf in east Antarctica collapsed completely on or around March 15.
Seals help Japanese researchers collect data under Antarctic ice
The seals were equipped with a head-mounted conductivity, temperature and depth sensor between March and November 2017, allowing scientists to collect observation data.
Burgeoning krill fishery may threaten marine wildlife in the Antarctic
The icy waters off Antarctica are estimated to hold between 300 million and 500 million tons of krill — nearly as heavy as all of the world's cattle.
Japan icebreaker Shirase reaches Showa Station in Antarctica
The Shirase is scheduled to return to Japan in March next year.
Polynesian seafarers likely reached Antarctica hundreds of years before the Western explorers usually credited with discovering the frozen continent, a new study has concluded. New Zealand researchers scoured so-called "grey literature" — including oral records, historic indigenous artworks and non-academic sources — looking for links ...
Japanese researcher fulfills dream as a 'winterover' at South Pole
Yuya Makino is spending the six-month winter season hunting for neutrinos in Antarctica.
Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are helping the formation and spread of "green snow" and it is becoming so prolific in ...
'Isolated within isolation': Keeping the coronavirus out of Antarctica
In the frozen and desolate expanse of Antarctica, Alejandro Valenzuela Pena is used to a feeling of isolation. Now, however, that has taken on a new meaning as the only continent still free from the coronavirus looks to keep the pandemic out. The global spread ...
Japanese icebreaker Shirase reaches Showa Station in Antarctica for climate study
The Shirase, a Japanese icebreaker, has reached Showa Station, the nation's Antarctic research facility. Around 2:50 p.m. Sunday, the ship carrying members of Japan's 61st research expedition team and goods to be used in their activities arrived at a point where the team could pipe ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologized on Thursday for the then-government's handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country's worst peacetime disaster. On Nov. 28, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 was ...
Two technicians die at U.S. McMurdo research station in Antarctica
Two technicians performing maintenance at a U.S. research station in Antarctica died on Wednesday while working on a building that houses a generator for a nearby radio transmitter, the National Science Foundation (NSF) said. The pair, both employed as subcontractors at the NSF-managed McMurdo Station ...
It is essential that China be a good citizen of Antarctica, and honor the legal and diplomatic conventions that govern behavior there.