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.
National / Science & Health Mar 17, 2022
Seals help Japanese researchers collect data under Antarctic ice
by Irene Wang and Akira Tomoshige
The seals were equipped with a head-mounted conductivity, temperature and depth sensor between March and November 2017, allowing scientists to collect observation data.
World Feb 25, 2022
Burgeoning krill fishery may threaten marine wildlife in the Antarctic
by Gloria Dickie
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.
National Dec 20, 2021
Japan icebreaker Shirase reaches Showa Station in Antarctica
The Shirase is scheduled to return to Japan in March next year.
Asia Pacific Jun 14, 2021
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 ...
Travel Sep 15, 2020
Japanese researcher fulfills dream as a 'winterover' at South Pole
by Ichiro Banno
Yuya Makino is spending the six-month winter season hunting for neutrinos in Antarctica.
World / Science & Health May 20, 2020
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 ...
World / Science & Health Apr 15, 2020
'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 ...
National / Science & Health Jan 6, 2020
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 ...
Asia Pacific Nov 28, 2019
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 ...
World Dec 14, 2018
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 ...
Editorials Nov 1, 2018
It is essential that China be a good citizen of Antarctica, and honor the legal and diplomatic conventions that govern behavior there.