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Antarctica

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:41:00 GMT
Ushuaia and Punta Arenas consider the 2021/2022 cruise season over
Two companies that were still organizing Antarctic cruises, over the weekend and almost coincidentally announced that the current trips would be the last, in effect putting an end to a short season.

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:02:00 GMT
New research shows that slow growth in Antarctic fish is linked to problems making proteins
Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of the Southern Ocean but in doing so have lost their ability to grow at rates seen in their warmer water cousins.  Researchers have now disco...

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:55:00 GMT
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is Found
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:38:00 GMT
Founding stone for relocated naval base in Ushuaia with its own wharf
Argentine Minister of Defense Jorge Taiana and the governor of Tierra del Fuego province, Gustavo Melella laid the founding stone of the Ushuaia Integral Naval Base, which will replace the current naval base, and will be built ...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:20:00 GMT
HMS Protector in solidarity and supplies visit to Ukraine base in Antarctica
Royal Navy sailors showed their support for and solidarity with the people of Ukraine when they called on one of the nation’s most remote outposts. The Navy’s sole icebreaker HMS Protector dropped in on 21 scientists who ma...

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:39:00 GMT
Automation in place at BAS Halley VI Research Station
In late February, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley VI Research Station closed for the 2021/22 season. The season saw some major developments at the station, including several significant improvements and additions to i...

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:28:00 GMT
Argentina approves funds for a new polar vessel, to be built with Finnish consultants
The Argentine government has approved the funds for the design and construction of a new polar vessel to complement the activities of ice breaker ARA Almirante Irizar in her task of delivering provisions to the Argentine thirte...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:38:00 GMT
IPCC reveals global impact of human induced climate change
A new report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on Monday 28 February, has outlined the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change.

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:34:00 GMT
Chile submits report on the extended continental shelf west of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Chilean foreign minister Carolina Valdivia on Monday submitted to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf the report on the extended continental shelf to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Thi...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:01:00 GMT
Rescuing juvenile Magellan penguins along the Uruguayan coast
Uruguayan marine life protection organizations have come across an unexpected number of juvenile penguins on their annual transit to less frigid waters in neighboring southern Brazil.



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