Antarctica
Antarctica
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:45:00 GMTAs more and more tourists flock to Antarctica: a visitors’ tax and a numbers’ system cap
By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, nearly...
Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:26:00 GMTFundraising teen pilot detained in Chilean Antarctica
Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old pilot and social media influencer, has been detained on King George Island, Antarctica, after a failed attempt to complete a solo flight across all seven continents to raise US$1 million for childhood c...
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:27:00 GMTAntarctica Emperor penguin population decreasing faster than expected, satellite imagery
Antarctica’s emperor penguin population may be decreasing faster than some of the most pessimistic predictions. A new analysis of up-to-date satellite imagery suggests the birds’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period (...
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:40:00 GMTShip anchor damaging sea fauna in Antarctica reported
A 2022-2023 study published in Frontiers in Conservation Science provides the first documented evidence of ship anchor damage to Antarctica’s seafloor, revealing severe impacts on fragile marine ecosystems.
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:11:00 GMTThe plastic legacy has reached profusely to the bottom of the planet
On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where...