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Antarctica warming, study says - 23 Jan 2009
Washington, Jan 23 (DPA) Antarctica is warming, despite the recent scientific...;The western portions of Antarctica had the highest rate of warming, while eastern... told us that it is also warming in West Antarctica.'   The study

China opens first research station in inland Antarctica - 03 Feb 2009
Beijing, Feb.3 (ANI): China opened its first research station in inland Antarctica on Monday. Members of China's 25th Antarctic expedition team attended... and the first in inland Antarctica, reported Xinhua. The Kunlun station

Parts of Antarctica warming up over years - 23 Jan 2009
Washington, Jan 23 (IANS) Much of Antarctica has been warming, not getting any... that warming in West Antarctica exceeded a tenth of a degree Celsius per decade for the last 50 years and more than offset the cooling in East Antarctica. 

Antarctica is warming more than previously thought - 22 Jan 2009
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): New research has shown that much of Antarctica..., the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning... of the Quaternary Research Center at the UW. "West Antarctica is a very different place

Penguins blamed for accumulation of arsenic in Antarctica soil - 01 Jan 2008
London, August 22 (ANI): Penguin guano has been accused of dumping arsenic in Antarctica soil by Chinese researchers.  A research team led by Zhouqing Xie of the Institute of Polar Environment at the University of Science

New Zealand students go on a virtual tour to Antarctica - 24 Nov 2008
Wellington, Nov 24 (ANI): Students in New Zealand are experiencing Antarctica from the comfort of their classrooms, thanks to virtual field trips provided... in Antarctica for two weeks to film and photograph the great southern continent

China to build first inland Antarctica station by 2010 - 01 Jan 2008
New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): China will set up a new observatory station in Antarctica at the region's highest peak within two years. "The 25th Chinese... already built inland research stations in the Antarctica. (ANI) 

China to build inland research base at Antarctica - 07 Jan 2009
research base at Dome Argus, or 'Dome A', in Antarctica, 4,093 meters above sea level... Shetland Islands and the Zhongshan station in east Antarctica.  ... plans to have its own aircraft in Antarctica to shuttle researchers between

Mountains in Antarctica can help destroy ozone layer - 05 Jan 2009
London, Jan 5 (ANI): In a new research, it has been observed that "mountain waves" in the atmosphere above Antarctica create rare clouds that are helping...) released by human activity have opened a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica

Climate change also affecting microscopic life in Antarctica - 17 Mar 2009
the penguins at the apex of the food chain in Antarctica, but simultaneously... the globe, including two in Antarctica, enables tracking of ecological

Antarctica's largest icebergs sing eerie songs - 01 Jan 2008
London, July 10 (ANI): Some of Antarctica's largest icebergs can make eerie sounds, which are a result of huge lumps of ice scraping past each other..., these icebergs, which travel from Antarctica to Tahiti, can sound like laughing

Canadians claim record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole - 10 Jan 2009
for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.  According to a report by BBC...;The Canadians' journey took them from Hercules Inlet on Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf...) by satellite phone from Antarctica.  Tom Sjogren, founder of ExplorersWeb.com, a New

Electrons over Antarctica may provide physical proof of dark matter - 20 Nov 2008
over Antarctica. According to a report in National Geographic News... Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) over Antarctica.  Circular winds

Electrons over Antarctica may provide physical proof of dark matter - 20 Nov 2008
over Antarctica. According to a report in National Geographic News... Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) over Antarctica.  Circular winds

Antarctica did not have ice 40 million years ago - 01 Jan 2008
in Antarctica. The study suggests that Antarctica at that time was yet to develop... to Antarctica.  But, the researchers found that the water temperature

Antarctica and North America may once have been connected - 01 Jan 2008
boulder found high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence... Antarctica and Australia. The team's find, they argue, provides physical... Antarctica (SWEAT) hypothesis. The boulder find came by chance while the researchers

Marketing visiting rights to Antarctica would limit excessive tourism - 06 Oct 2008
in Antarctica that can form a threat for the vulnerable South Pole area, in the form... in Antarctica has grown dramatically. In 1985, just a few thousand people visited the area... on Antarctica.  One possible solution is that of marketable visitor rights

Marketing visiting rights to Antarctica would limit excessive tourism - 01 Jan 2008
in Antarctica that can form a threat for the vulnerable South Pole area, in the form... in Antarctica has grown dramatically. In 1985, just a few thousand people visited the area... on Antarctica.  One possible solution is that of marketable visitor rights

New NASA balloon successfully flight-tested over Antarctica - 09 Jan 2009
over Antarctica that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research... hub in Antarctica.  The balloon reached a float altitude of more than 111,000

Ice bridge in Antarctica snaps, may cause Wilkins shelf to break away - 06 Apr 2009
London, April 6 (ANI): Latest reports indicate that an ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped, which... the impact of climate change on this part of Antarctica.  Over the past 50 years

Ozone hole over Antarctica weakens carbon sink in Southern Ocean - 10 Dec 2008
London, Dec 10 (ANI): A new research has suggested that the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica may be impairing the Southern Ocean's ability to mop up carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's atmosphere. Earth's oceans are the largest

"Chemical equator" keeps away polluted air from Antarctica's atmosphere - 01 Jan 2008
London, September 24 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a "chemical equator" just north of Australia that divides polluted air from South-East Asia from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica

42 million year old Kiwi fossils show a warmer climate with no ice in Antarctica - 01 Jan 2008
in Antarctica. The study, based on analysis of fossilised micro-organisms at Hampden Beach, near the Moeraki Boulders in North Otago, suggests that Antarctica... was about 1100km further south, closer to Antarctica, at the same latitude

Similar topography of Antarctica and Mars may shed light on climate change on the Red Planet - 01 Jan 2008
exist between Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys and the Red Planet's gullies, which... gullies within some of the coldest and driest regions of Antarctica. The authors... glaciation and gully formation in the coldest and driest mountains of Antarctica

World largest ice embedded telescope coming up at Antarctica - 10 Dec 2008
of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011, opening super-sensitive new eyes

First comprehensive 'inventory' of life in Antarctica reveals rich biodiversity - 02 Dec 2008
Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Scientists have made the first comprehensive "inventory" of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands, which has revealed a region that is rich in biodiversity and has more species than the Galapagos.

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown - 17 Feb 2009
and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time... portions of nearly all continental shores.  However, Antarctica, containing... do not think that we will lose all, or even most, of Antarctica's ice sheet

Short-term spikes, long-term warming linked to tropical Pacific - 01 Jan 2008
West Antarctica are linked to conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean. ... to warmer-than-normal temperatures in West Antarctica.  Analysis of ice cores drilled in West Antarctica reveals that air temperatures there warmed

Antarctic ice growth is one of the odd side effects of global warming - 01 Jan 2008
of global warming, the amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown recently... around Antarctica has been increasing since the late 1970s, perhaps because climate..., Antarctica is an isolated continent bigger than the US that creates its own deep freeze

Scientists to probe one of world's last major unexplored places - 15 Oct 2008
last major unexplored places, which is located in Antarctica.  ... - and specifically the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet - including how Antarctica...;The researchers of the Antarctica's Gamburstev Province (AGAP) team hope

Previously unknown extinct species had large teeth on roof of mouth - 01 Jan 2008
extinct amphibious predator species in Antarctica that had large teeth... was the largest animal in Antarctica during the Triassic," Sidor said. ... into a giant continent called Pangea. The area of Antarctica where the fossil

35.5 mln yr old global cooling caused by sharp decline in CO2 - 27 Feb 2009
cooling that started in Antarctica about 35.5 million years ago, was caused... of Antarctica had drifted to near its present location, its climate was subtropical. Then, 35.5 million years ago, ice formed on Antarctica in about 100,000 years

Ozone hole just got bigger this year - 08 Oct 2008
Washington, Oct 8 (IANS) The 2008 ozone hole - a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica - is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007. The ozone layer, 25 km above the earth, filters sunlight, shielding life on Earth from

Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic - 06 Apr 2009
London, April 5 (IANS) An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped, BBC reported. Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away

Genes hold secret of survival of Antarctic 'antifreeze fish' - 17 Oct 2008
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) Genes hold the secret of how and why some of the amazingly hardy fishes survive in the harshest of Antarctica's icy waters. There are eight families of notothenioid fish, five of them inhabiting the Southern

Scientists discover gigantic alp-like mountain range buried under Antarctic ice - 25 Feb 2009
the existence of an European Alps-like mountain range in Antarctica, which... portion of the Antarctica's Gamburstev Province (AGAP) project.  "As our... more than 10 million square kilometers atop the bedrock of Antarctica. "We

Ancient Antarctic lake "frozen in time" could provide clues to life on Mars - 04 Mar 2009
, which has been frozen for hundreds for thousands of years beneath Antarctica, could... to a report in Telegraph, buried nearly two miles beneath Antarctica..., the research team will go "deep field" into West Antarctica to sample water

Scientists find Antarctic worm that survives cold with an antifreeze system - 10 Feb 2009
in Antarctica that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze... in wetter areas of Antarctica's interior. Until Adhikari sequenced its genes... environment means it is likely going to flourish as Antarctica gets wetter

Tiny fossils take Antarctic Dry Valleys' origin back to 14 million years - 01 Jan 2008
of the climate shift that gave rise to Antarctica's remarkable Dry Valleys..., there's no water - it's bone dry, dry-frozen," he told BBC News. Antarctica's..., Antarctica freezes over - a whole host of things change right at that point

Antarctic earthquakes shake at glacial speed - 01 Jan 2008
Washington, September 9 (ANI): Scientists have found that wide rivers of ice, which flow through relatively slow-moving polar ice sheets in Antarctica, en... in earthquakes.  The seismic signals from Antarctica's 60-mile-wide Whillans Ice

1,000 yr old supernova may be recorded in Antarctic ice - 04 Mar 2009
London, March 4 (ANI): In an analysis of the nitrate content of an ice core drilled at Dome Fuji station in Antarctica, scientists have found what may..., analysed three cores in 2004 - two pulled out of Antarctica and one from

Mysterious source of high-energy cosmic radiation discovered - 20 Nov 2008
Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays, which was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica.  The team

Antarctic Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread - 01 Jan 2008
Paris, July 11 (ANI): The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is literally hanging by its last thread, with further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since

Polar regions key to understanding climate change: Experts - 04 Dec 2008
Geneva, Dec 4 (DPA) Changes taking place in the Arctic and the Antarctica, as well as the unique conditions existing at those ends of the planet, make the polar regions key to understanding climate change and a host of other topics

Antarctic glaciers may provide clues to past and future sea level - 29 Oct 2008
and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, in Antarctica, searching for clues to past and future sea... the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica

Wipro BPO to set up business shared services centre in Curitiba, Brazil - 31 Oct 2008
, Stella and Antarctica.  The Shared Services Centre will provide services

Antarctic dust helps scientists unravel details of past climate change - 30 Mar 2009
with the dustiest periods in Antarctica's past, thus establishing a link between the two. They found that dust blown south to Antarctica from the windy..., on to barren windy plains, from where dust was blown to Antarctica

Climate change will destroy many penguin colonies: WWF report - 13 Oct 2008
; Juan Casavelos, WWF Antarctica Climate Change Coordinator said: 'Penguins... of Antarctica, so the continued increase in global temperature and resulting loss of feeding... change in Antarctica, as well as globally, is to substantially reduce greenhouse

Scientists provide conclusive proof that humans are causing polar warming - 31 Oct 2008
Change (IPCC) had concluded that Antarctica was the only continent where human... to human activity. However in Antarctica, such detection was so far precluded... ozone depletion opposed warming over most of Antarctica and made the detection

Global warming makes predatory crabs return to Antarctic waters and threaten sea life - 05 Feb 2009
in temperate and tropical zones have been shut out of Antarctica for millions of years..., dominant in most places, cannot operate in the icy waters of Antarctica.  ...;Antarctica's coastal waters are warming rapidly. Temperatures at the sea surface off

Antarctic Peninsula is changing fast, thanks to global warming - 01 Jan 2008
made by three researchers who have spent decades studying Antarctica's denizens... of the Earth that are changing the ecology of Antarctica over just decades after some..., with phytoplankton - tiny photosynthetic organisms that, in Antarctica

Antarctic abyss also affected by global warming - 12 Mar 2009
water that sink down to the abyss along the shores of Antarctica before moving... it was in the 1990s.  The water that travels from Antarctica into the south... travelling from Antarctica into the Pacific is 0.03 degree C warmer. 

Hidden glacial lakes drive flow of Antarctic ice - 17 Nov 2008
Antarctica's Byrd glacier and the events in two lakes that lie beneath... vary more than they do in Antarctica, where the summers are not warm enough to generate significant melt ponds at the surface. "In Antarctica, it appears

Antarctic penguin DNA to give clues to how to cope with climate change - 14 Oct 2008
surviving extreme climate change in Antarctica for hundreds and thousands of years... of evolution of Adelie penguins in Antarctica may help shed some light on why... conditions of Antarctica. They found the rate of mutations between generations

Brit adventurers to follow 'Scott of the Antarctic's' footsteps - 29 Mar 2009
and Alastair Humphreys announced their plans to travel to Antarctica today - 97... will start their journey from Scott's wooden hut on the coast of Antarctica

Southern Ocean's ability to soak up CO2 unaffected by changing winds - 09 Dec 2008
Antarctica, or in the amount of deep water rising to the surface near Antarctica," he

Sagar Nidhi to facilitate India's oceanic exploration - 04 Mar 2008
coastline and can even sail to Antarctica in summers by cutting through ice... and also serve in taking out further expedition to Antarctica for research

Huge CO2 releases may have amplified global warming at end of last ice age - 13 Mar 2009
winds, which caused heavy mixing in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica... (NOAA), proposed that westerly winds in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica... explain the warming of Antarctica and the rise in CO2. It's being forced

Melting ice may help in battle against global warming - 08 Dec 2008
into the icy waters around Antarctica, triggering a large, natural removal... see the rapid ice loss in Antarctica as one obvious sign of climate warming

Sea level rise to threaten 1 in 10 humans in low-lying coastal areas by 2100 - 11 Mar 2009
of Greenland and Antarctica are also contributing to sea level rise." ... sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already contributing more and faster to sea

Rapid speed of ice shelf spread results in a quicker break-off - 28 Nov 2008
in Antarctica and Greenland, spread under their own weight and flow off land over the oceans.  The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica floats for as much as 500 miles

Top ten animal finds of 2008 - 27 Dec 2008
beasts: A 1,091-pound (495-kilogram) colossal squid, caught near Antarctica... blob": The August dissection of a colossal squid snagged off Antarctica

Top ten animal finds of 2008 - 25 Dec 2008
;A 1,091-pound (495-kilogram) colossal squid, caught near Antarctica in 2007...;The August dissection of a colossal squid snagged off Antarctica in 2007 revealed

Abrupt climate shifts may come within decades - 20 Dec 2008
off the western Antarctica were being offset by snow accumulation... of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, "There is a new consensus that Antarctica

China aims to build its first inland Antarctic research station - 19 Dec 2008
Station, also the country's third station in Antarctica after Changcheng Station

IAF to become first to climb highest peaks in seven continents - 20 Jan 2009
Massif in Antarctica.  'The mountaineering expedition will end

Marine "jelly balls" can combat global warming - 17 Nov 2008
;They are also of interest because in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica

Scientists turn to elephant seals for study of warming Antarctic seas - 01 Jan 2008
to Antarctica once a year to attach new sensors. (ANI) 

South Pole is becoming a tourist hotspot - 11 Nov 2008
a jump in tourists going to Antarctica as a whole. Over 1992-93, 6700

Kangaroos, humans share most of their genes - 18 Nov 2008
and Antarctica, they said. (ANI) 

We are all Martians, claims scientist - 18 Jan 2009
fresh interest in a four billion-year-old Martian meteorite found in Antarctica

US seeks restrictions on tourism to Arctic-Antarctic region - 06 Apr 2009
is especially important as tourism to Antarctica increases,' Clinton said at an opening

Chilean President calls on Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan - 17 Mar 2009
of negotiation. Both sides agreed to pursue cooperation in the Antarctica as well

Chilean President in Chennai on two-day visit - 20 Mar 2009
in the Antarctica as well. Both countries also expressed an interest

President Michelle promises to strengthen Chile, India partnership - 20 Mar 2009
. Both sides agreed to pursue cooperation in the Antarctica as well. Both

India, Chile sign four agreements to boost bilateral ties - 17 Mar 2009
cooperation in the Antarctica as well. Both countries also expressed an interest

Antarctic under pressure as tourists flock to see icebergs - 22 Oct 2008
; The voluntary International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators... animals.  Under the IAATO code of conduct, ships visiting Antarctica

'Pumpkin' balloon breaks endurance record by staying aloft for more than 42 days - 09 Feb 2009
, which is currently coasting in stratospheric breezes around Antarctica, has

Mars gullies were carved by meltwater just a few hundred thousand years ago - 01 Jan 2008
be found in Antarctica's Dry Valleys," said study co-author David Marchant

70,000 yr old ice core analysis shows correlation between CO2 and abrupt climate changes - 01 Jan 2008
trapped as bubbles in ancient ice cores from Antarctica. In the last Ice

Penguin decline sounds bell for potentially catastrophic changes in world's oceans - 01 Jan 2008
and Antarctica also have suffered significant population declines. Penguins

Scientists find first ever evidence of asteroids with Earth-like crust - 08 Jan 2009
meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient

Father and son successfully complete unsupported trip to South Pole - 17 Jan 2009
- just nine days after setting off from the Patriot Hills base in Antarctica

Wild elephant seals to track changes in temperature of Antarctic seas - 01 Jan 2008
, and the researchers need only come to Antarctica once a year to attach new sensors. "I

Source of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be underground water - 27 Nov 2008
at Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Scientists suggest that in Enceladus's case

Wipro opens BPO centre in Brazil for Latin firm - 01 Nov 2008
, Stella and Antarctica.  "The partnership will accrue significant

NASA spacecraft detects buried glaciers on Mars - 21 Nov 2008
glaciers that have been detected under rocky coverings in Antarctica. 

Scientists to explore 'hidden world' beneath Antarctic glacier - 31 Dec 2008
scientists will get a glimpse of the unexplored region beneath one of Antarctica's most

First Indian woman sets out for South Pole - 26 Mar 2009
) temperatures to reach the heart of Antarctica, in an attempt to raise

Data from past provides new insights into climate change - 01 Jan 2008
and Antarctica that reflected the approximate temperatures when the gases were trapped

90,000 yr old data suggests warming, CO2 and ocean currents are linked - 06 Oct 2008
Greenland and Antarctica that reflected the approximate temperatures when

Satellites reveal sea level has risen by 3.3 mm a year since 1993 - 14 Nov 2008
be attributed to accelerated land ice loss from glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica

Scientists spot bizarre ecosystem in Great Lake's sinkholes - 25 Feb 2009
in Antarctica, and pallid, floating pony-tails of other microbial life thrive

Sea level to rise by 1 meter in next 100 years - 09 Jan 2009
and Antarctica are also slower to melt.  The great uncertainty in the calculation

Data from past provides new insights into climate change - 06 Oct 2008
and Antarctica that reflected the approximate temperatures when the gases were trapped

Moon went "missing" in 1761 due to major volcanic eruption - 17 Jan 2009
cores from Antarctica and Greenland.  He found evidence of a "volcanic winter

Manmohan to meet Chile's first woman president Tuesday - 16 Mar 2009
as civil aviation, Antarctica cooperation, science and technology, agriculture

Human-induced climate change began thousands of years ago - 18 Dec 2008
ice core records from Antarctica, scientists are teasing out evidence of past

Human-induced climate change began thousands of years ago - 18 Dec 2008
ice core records from Antarctica, scientists are teasing out evidence of past

Father-son team starts youngest ever record-attempt trip to South Pole - 27 Dec 2008
the Patriot Hills base on Antarctica on Boxing Day. They hope to cover