A 160 square mile chunk of Antarctica's Wilkens ice shelf is collapsing in the continent's fast warming southwest Antarctic Peninsula. "Block after block of ice is just tumbling and crumbling into the ocean..
A satellite survey between 1996 and 2006 found that the net loss of ice from Antarctica rose by about 75 per cent as the movement of glaciers towards the sea speeded up.
Scientists estimate that that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost about 132 billion
THE most comprehensive study to date of Antarctica's ice confirms growing concern that the ice cap is melting faster than predicted. The implications are that the global sea level will rise faster than expected, while a huge influx of freshwater into the
seals help scientists understand the effects of climate change."It's a win-win situation," says Daniel Costa, an ecologist from the U-Cal. "We're getting amazing data about the ocean's properties and how the animals' feeding habits react to changes...
Many international news stories have recently pointed out that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be meeting in Anchorage, Alaska from May 4 to 31, 2007. Of central concern will be the commercial whaling by Japan.
Glenn Inwood, said today the ship was not leaving the Antarctic, despite mounting pressure from New Zealand and environmentalists for it to quit the area.
REPAIRED and refuelled after its disabling fire, the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru left the Ross Sea off Antarctica yesterday headed north before a decision on whether Japan will cut short its whaling season.
New studies of Greenland and Antarctica have forced a UN expert panel to conclude there is a 50% chance that widespread ice sheet loss "may no longer be avoided" because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Fuel from a Norwegian cruise ship has spilled onto the coastline of an Antarctic island after the vessel ran aground, a scientist from Spain's base in the area said on Thursday. Fuel washed into a bay off Antarctica's Deception Island ...