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Second man nears end of historic unassisted solo trek across Antarctica, on heels of American's feat
A British adventurer is close to becoming the second person to traverse Antarctica completely unassisted. Louis Rudd's expedition blog shows he has only has about 50 miles left on the journey across the continent and is expected to finish Saturday. If the Hereford, England, resident completes ...
American completes first unassisted solo trek across Antarctica
An American adventurer has become the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without assistance of any kind. Colin O'Brady, 33, took 54 days to complete the nearly 1,000-mile (1,600-km) crossing of the frozen continent from north to south. O'Brady's voyage was tracked by ...
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 ...
Icebreaker Shirase leaves for Antarctica carrying freight for Japanese research expedition
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's icebreaker Shirase left Harumi pier in Tokyo on Saturday bound for Antarctica. It is transporting freight for Japan's 60th Antarctic expedition team. With most members of the team getting on board in Australia on Nov. 26, the Shirase is expected to ...
Plans for in Antarctic ocean sanctuary, world's largest, blocked by Russia, China and Norway
A plan to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters has been shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a consensus, with environmentalists on Saturday decrying a lack of scientific foresight. Member states of the organization tasked with overseeing the ...
It is essential that China be a good citizen of Antarctica, and honor the legal and diplomatic conventions that govern behavior there.
Two male penguins who paired up as a "same-sex couple" have incubated a baby chick and are "doting" on their tiny offspring, an Australian aquarium announced Friday. Gentoo penguins Sphen and Magic are happily "taking turns caring for their baby chick," born on October 19 ...
Nobel Prize in economics 'will help' climate change movement, winner William Nordhaus says
The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics, which recognized a leading researcher into the effects of climate change, should give momentum to policies aimed at minimizing the damage, according to the Yale University professor who shared the award. "Yes it will help," William Nordhaus said Monday ...
Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to ...
Experts float idea of massive propping up of glaciers to avoid cataclysmic sea level rise
As global warming outpaces efforts to tame it, scientists have proposed building massive underwater structures to prevent an Antarctic glacier the size of Britain from sliding into the sea and lifting the world's oceans by several meters. The more modest of two engineering schemes — ...
Scientists probe why New Zealand's Tawaki penguins swim halfway to Antarctica and back yearly
Each year in December, penguins with long blonde eyebrows swim away from the shores of New Zealand for a two-month marathon swim halfway to Antarctica and back. The breathtaking distance was recorded by researchers, who for the first time managed to track the birds. Penguins, universally ...
A breakthrough in the study of ghostly particles called high-energy neutrinos that traverse space, zipping unimpeded through people, planets and whole galaxies, is giving scientists an audacious new way to expand our understanding of the cosmos. Researchers say that for the first time they have ...
