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A gallery of images from Capt Robert Scott's Antarctic
expedition
Rarely-seen photographs from
Captain Robert F Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South
Pole can be seen in an online exhibition from 4 March. Feb
20th 2009
UK considered quitting Antarctica
Britain considered closing its bases in Antarctica
in the 1950s due to the high costs of maintaining them and aggressive territorial
claims from Chile and Argentina, previously secret papers showed on Monday. Feb 4, 2008
Survivor
recalls Antarctic rescue
Woman whose ship sank off the coast of
Antarctica unsure if she will go on a cruise again. Nov 28 2007
Cruise of a lifetime ends with passengers adrift in icy waters off coast
of Antarctica
Iceberg blamed for holing MV Explorer, All
passengers rescued. Nov 24, 2007
Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
The United Kingdom is planning to claim
sovereign rights over a vast area of the remote seabed off Antarctica,
Move would extend UK oil, gas and mineral rights. Oct 17, 2007
Polar explorers need more psychological preparation:
Anyone who wants to explore the Arctic and
Antarctica will need more than just physical fitness to brave the
elements. A new study suggests they need also to be psychologically fit
to spend time in such harsh, remote regions. July 31, 2007
Fire destroys Argentina's only school on Antarctica research base
A fire destroyed the only schoolhouse on an
Argentine research base in Antarctica, the base's director told a local
television station on Monday. The facility was closed for winter break
and no injuries were reported. July 30 2007
Hillary calls on Britain to help preserve Antarctica huts
Sir Edmund Hillary says Britain should step in
to help preserve historic huts in Antarctica that its own famous
explorers established more than 100 years ago. Buildings and artefacts
need urgent conservation work. 22nd Jan 2007
Canadian, British explorers reach Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility
Dragging 120-kilogram (264-pound) sleds, the
team travelled more than 1,700 kilometres (1,056 miles) on foot or by
kite ski to reach Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility - the furthest
point from any ocean - on Jan. 19. The team were surprised to find a
bust of Vladimir Lenin erected by the Soviets nearly half a century ago
still standing amid the ice. 22nd Jan 2007
Environment groups lobby against U.S. ice highway across Antarctica
Treaty nations to ask the United States to reconsider its 1,632-kilometer
(1,020-mile) ''ice highway'' to the South Pole, constructed to bolster scientific
study. 3rd June 2006
Rescuers Search for Missing Argentines
Four army commandos on skis dropped by
helicopter Tuesday onto an Antarctic glacier to search for two Argentine
men who plunged into a deep ice crevasse in a weekend snowmobiling
accident. Sept 20, 2005
Futuristic design wins competition for new Antarctic Research Station
A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton
Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey
(BAS) Halley Research Station. 19 Jul 2005
Damage shocks hut restorers in Antarctica
Captain Scott's historic
Terra Nova Hut in Antarctica has been badly hit by floods, says the trust
working to conserve the largest of the "heroic era" huts on the frozen continent.
Feb 7th 2005
Sir Ed blasts road to pole ... who drove every one of the
2011 kilometres from Scott Base to the South Pole on a tractor, is appalled
the United States is building a road across Antarctica. ...
26th Nov 2004
'Ice highway' may conquer last frontier. Six Americans
have just ended a second year of what looks like an impossible mission --
carving out a road to the South Pole. 12th April 2004
Lynne Cox, becomes the first person to swim a mile in the near-freezing
Antarctic Ocean. Jan 25th 2004
Pilot stranded in Antarctica reaches New Zealand December 15th 2003.
An Australian who became the first pilot to fly solo over the South
Pole in a homemade plane has flown back to New Zealand after being stranded
in Antarctica for six days without fuel
Cold mountain
Thomas Keneally travels on the Kapitan
Khlebnikov to return a biscuit to Antarctica. I first went to Antarctica
in 1968, for somewhat under a fortnight. In those days one could visit the
continent only as a member of an official group, and the American ambassador
in Canberra, Bill Crook, a noble soul who would later give his life to a
di...
Freezing their pants off for an NVQ
September 30 2003 The wildest
ideas strike at the most banal moments. Steve Bull was taking his dog, Otto,
for a post-Christmas lollop in the park when it struck him that 34 was the
perfect age to ski to the South Pole, and that it would be good for some
of his students t...
Big business looks to clean up by cleaning up
the South Pole
February 02 2003. It is no accident that the
brains behind one of the most ambitious corporate social responsibility
projects around - to clean up Antarctica - were those of a marketing man.
Email from Deception Island
February 24 2003. It's surprisingly
hard to find a quiet spot in Antarctica - especially with 26 teenage travelling
companions. And above their chatter, dozens of seals bellow, tens of thousands
of penguins socialise and huge walls of ice crack off the ice shelf into
the ...
Antarctic hero Oates 'fathered child with girl
of 12'
October 14 2002. The antarctic hero Captain
Laurence Oates found time to sow scandalous wild oats before his noble act
in leaving a tent in 1912, according to freshly disclosed evidence
Sorry, I'm off
December 20 2001. Amy was two when I left home. Ben was
five. When I get back she will be three and Ben will be six.
Thaw puts hazards in the path of Scott's
successors November 17
2001. It is as big as Europe and the mainland US combined. It contains 90%
of the planet's snow and ice. No human stepped ashore before the 20th century.
Frozen frontier
November 20 2001. The icy chill
has become a full-scale blizzard. For in the past few months the Antarctic,
which has always had a niche in the collective imagination, has spread across
the cultural landscape like an avalanche.
Polar hero inspires explorers and stars
September 02 2001. A new race for the
South Pole is under way. But this time Hollywood stars Russell Crowe and
Kenneth Branagh, rather than Scott and Shackleton, are leading rival missions
to capitalise on our growing fascination with epic adventures on the ice
floes.
It's the coldest, most isolated continent on
earth. Why would anyone want to work there?
August 06 2001. "Antarctica,
the coldest, most exhilarating and isolated continent in the world, offers
exceptional challenges. We rely on motivated steel/mast erectors and fabricators
to maintain buildings and facilities that support vital scientific investigations
in ...
Antarctic Symphony May 08 2001. Peter Maxwell Davies's eighth,
and he says last, symphony has had more advance publicity than the other
seven put together. It was commissioned by the British Antarctic Survey,
as a sequel to Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antarctica, with the condition
that...
Dark days lie ahead for our happy little band
April 19 2001. The
last ship of the season has left; the next will not be here until December.
We have in prospect eight months of solitude, clinging to the edge of the
world's coldest, remotest continent.
Cruise ship taking on water in Antarctica
A cruise ship is aground and
taking on water in the Antarctic. The Argentina-based
Ciudad de Ushuaia, carrying 122 people including 89
passengers, ran aground near Cape Anna on Thursday. Dec 5th 2008
Historic Antarctica Landing Could Change Research Landscape
The flight was made by a pilot
wearing night-vision goggles, suggesting that travel to and
from the icy continent is possible even during sun-starved
winters. Sept 16, 2008
Antarctic cruise ship spill small, but left impact Company in accident says no spill seen, but scientist
says fuel detected. A Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground on a remote
Antarctic island leaked between 130-200 gallons of diesel oil but it is
not known if the spill will have any effect on the fragile environment,
February 2nd 2007
Calls for regulation of rising Antarctica tourism While walking beside the ruins of an old whaling station at this popular
tourist stop, a unique aspect of visiting Antarctica is immediately apparent.
There are no authorities like park rangers around to keep an eye on things.
8th October 2006
Tourists a threat
to Antarctica scientists say numbers have quadrupled, concerns
include non-native species. Cruise ship traffic to Antarctica has increased
in recent years. 12th June 2006
Japan seeks
to hunt more whales in Antarctica Challenging
the anti-whaling movement at an acrimonious global conference, Japan proposed
hunting nearly 3,000 Minke whales a year in the ... 20th July 2004
Antarctica's newest pests: Tourists.
They pose threat to fragile ecosystem, say scientists.
For scientists, the Antarctica is a deep freeze
that may hold priceless scientific secrets. For intrepid tourists, the icy
continent is just a cool place to visit. 12th April 2004
Antarctica threatened by 'gold rush'
Some of the world's harshest environments could be under
threat from a 21st century "gold rush" by research scientists, the United
Nations will warn today. Feb 2nd 2004
No, not a ski resort - it's the south pole January 24 2003.
'Great God! This is an awful place," wrote Captain Robert Falcon Scott when
he reached the south pole on January 17 1912. Tom Avery, a 27-year-old finance
director with a ski company, had a similar reaction when he reached the
pole at the end of Decembe...
Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill
January 28 2003. Their last expedition ended in farce when the
Russians threatened to send in military planes to intercept them as they
tried to cross into Siberia via the icebound Bering Strait.
Deep waters
July 4th 2002. My hands are
frozen to the wheel, I'm wedged into the cockpit at an angle of 45 degrees
and my shoulders ache. I've been on watch for 20 minutes. One hour and 40
minutes to go.
The cost of...
November 18 2001. If you were taken aback by November's cold snap,
don't go to Antarctica because, even though it's spring on the Last Continent,
it is considerably chillier. However, although there won't be much mistletoe
or wine, 'tis the season for adventures to the So...
Go with the floes
July 14 2001. The Orcas formed
a line against us. Five mighty heads appeared above the surface, steam rising
from their blow holes. They mustered an organised defence unlike anything
any of us had ever seen.
Sea Shepherd ready to clash with Japanese whalers
Sea Shepherd prepared for
confrontation as whaling season begins (AM) The Australian
Government is calling for restraint as Japanese whalers and
protesters prepare for a confrontation in the Southern
Ocean. Nov 8th 2008
Researchers Find Abrupt Shift in Diet of Adélie Penguins in Antarctica
If you are what you eat, then Adélie penguins
aren’t what they used to be. An abrupt shift in the eating habits of
Adélies in Antarctica, starting about 200 years ago. has been
discovered. July 31 2007
Greenpeace fights sea battle with rival anti-whaling ship
A battle for what is being called "the high
moral wave" was last night being fought off the wild coast of Antarctica
as the world's two leading international marine protection groups fought
each other over which would stop the Japanese whaling fleet. January 2,
2006
Whale count wrong, DNA study reveals July 25 2003 Two
centuries of commercial whaling may have reduced whale numbers to one-hundredth
of the original population, according to research
Japan denounces whale conservation vote June 17 2003 Hunted to the
brink of extinction, their relentless slaughter became the first great symbol
of the overexploitation of the earth's resources
Whaling walkout by Japan June 18 2003
Look - but please don't touch
June 05 2003. Asbjorn Bjorgvinsson
confesses that his heart still gives an extra beat when he sees a whale.
"They're so majestic. You're scanning the horizon and then without any warning
one slides out of the water right beside you.
Whaling May 21, 2002 With an end to the ban on hunting in
sight, whales have a reason to be worried. Read our web guide for all you
need to know about Onomi, Abura-sunoko and much more besides
Japanese branch outrages WWF with whaling plea
April 02 2002. In any event
it has handed a major propaganda coup to the Japanese ministry of fisheries,
which will host the International Whaling Commission meeting later this
month in Shimonoseki, the home of the Japanese whaling industry.
Whale farm is Japan's big new idea
January 14 2002. A Japanese city is planning to farm whales in a bay
620 miles south-west of Tokyo, to entertain tourists, studying breeding
behaviour and, ultimately, to supply restaurants with meat.
Whale of a time
September 20 2001. All
modern whales, from petite porpoises to the blue behemoths of the open ocean,
are so well-adapted for swimming that their ancestry among land-living mammals
is almost totally obscure. So much so that even George Gaylord Simpson,
the greatest authorit...
Stop blubbering September 09 2001.
The little, red, bloodless strips of flesh seem
so innocuous. Layered, one on top of each other, with a little cress garnish
on a spotless white plate, they are just a light snack. The most shocking
thing is the price: at £10 a slice...
Critters galore in icy Antarctica
One of the first wildlife surveys
of Antarctica's icy waters has uncovered a rich collection
of marine life, rivalling the diversity of the Great Barrier
Reef. February 17, 2009
Last chance for Southern Ocean 23rd January 2004. Scientists
in Australia have warned that fish piracy is damaging the Southern Ocean
to such an extent that time is running out to save it. Rewards for fish
pirates far outweigh the risk of fines..
What a whopper Squid find 'is scientifically
priceless'
April 03 2003. A colossal squid caught
by fishermen in Antarctic waters is the first example of Mesonychoteuthis
hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean, scientists
claim.
Last flight of the albatross? March 08 2003. The albatross - legendary
protector of seafarers - is heading for extinction. Biologists have discovered
that swordfish and tuna fishing fleets are eliminating more than 100,000
of these birds every year. In a couple of decades most species will be wipe...
Penguins die in epidemic Monday December 16th, 2002.
The most famous symbol of the Falkland Islands, the waiter-like gentoo penguin,
has been hit by an unidentified malaise which has killed thousands and left
many partially paralysed.
Penguin p-p-picks up a promotion
August 17 2001.
Norway today bestowed one of its most prestigious
military honours - on a penguin.
Antarctic penguins feel the heat
May 10 2001.
In the subzero world of the emperor penguin,
even a hint of a warm breeze is bad news, French scientists report today.
Authorities seize rare fish cargo April
14 2001. Australian and South African forces
have seized a fishing boat for poaching 100 tonnes of a fish so valuable
it is known as "White Gold".
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Antarctic Urban-Myth
Navy to help with tottering penguins November 02 2000.
For years the mystery of the wobbling
South Atlantic penguins has puzzled scientists and ornithologists
alike. As military helicopters and planes fly overhead, the transfixed
birds lean further and further back until they topple over.
Official - penguins don't topple over
February 02 2001. Good news
for king penguins: the Royal Navy mission sent to Antarctica to
investigate whether they fall on their backs when aircraft pass
overhead has completed its rigorous experiments.
Comment - (Paul Ward, webmaster
Cool Antarctica) - I first learned the story of toppling penguins
when I arrived on the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands in 1985. As a
zoologist It struck me as a particularly unconvincing tale, and
when I didn't fall for it (no pun intended) I was told that it was
a story that was told to "newbies" to fool them. There
was even an elaboration of the original story whereby servicemen
would take it in turns to go out in squads and pick the penguins
back up again as if they were so many stranded tortoises.
I suspect the fact that this became "news" was a result of
the prank reaching the ears of some-one who should have known better
and who took it rather too seriously - it was never an issue
amongst the biologists who worked with penguins and who just
dismissed the story for the obvious fiction it always was.
There is however a more serious side to this
in that penguin colonies can be disrupted to the point where eggs
or chicks may be abandoned if they are over flown by aircraft
(particularly helicopters) at
low altitude.
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Ozone hole over Antarctica covered area size of North
America
The ozone hole over Antarctica
covered an area as big as North America at its peak in
September, according to the latest figures. Nov 4th 2008
Catching the Wind in Antarctica
Belgium’s new Antarctic station,
Princess Elisabeth, will be powered in part by nine small
wind turbines. On six continents, wind energy is struggling
to compete with fossil fuels. But in Antarctica, wind is
carving out a big role. Nov 4th 2008
Warmer Antarctica Shows Climate Changing on Every Continent
It's official: The South Pole is
also succumbing to human-induced climate change. Oct 31st
2008
''Glass Tulips,'' Huge Worms Found in Antarctica Standing
in fields like poppies these tunicates are actually animals. Feb 20th
2008
Lonely observatory
in Antarctica looks to stars
Newly installed
telescopes robotically survey the skies Feb 13th 2008
2007 Antarctic Ozone Hole Smaller But Not Recovering
The Antarctic ozone hole this year is
relatively small, but its size is not a sign of ozone recovery. The
smaller size of the ozone hole is related to the mild temperatures in
the Antarctic stratosphere during the 2007 southern hemispheric winter.
Oct 19, 2007
NASA Finds Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past
A team of scientists has
found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west
Antarctica in January 2005. May 15, 2007
Deep Antarctic waters reveal hundreds of new species Researchers have found more than 700 previously unknown
creatures including carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms,
crustaceans and molluscs in the cold, dark water around Antarctica.
May 17, 2007
Arctic ocean may lose all its ice by 2040, disrupting global weather
Scientists say Europe may face intensified storms
· Retreating Antarctic glaciers threaten sea levels
Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that
threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter
storms and heavier rainfall to western Europe, March 16, 2007
International Polar Year Launched in the UK Feb 26th
The largest polar research programme for 50
years gets under way this week. International Polar Year (IPY)
will see thousands of scientists, from more than 60 nations, working
together on 220 projects at high latitudes.
IPY Site
Fossil fuel and land use behind CO2 rise The first volume of the fourth assessment report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been almost three
years in the writing and brings together the work of 600 writers from 40
countries. February 2nd 2007
Ozone hole bigger and bigger
This year's ozone hole over Antarctica, which
has been declared by scientists in the US as the biggest and deepest on
record. "From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was
the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles (27.4 square kilometres),"
20th October 2006
Giant crater may lie under Antarctic ice
A huge potential crater has been discovered in Antarctica
via gravity measurements from space. .... the huge meteorite that may have caused it prompted the biggest mass
extinction in the Earth's history and caused the break up of an early
super continent,
spawning Australia. 2nd June 2006
Salt and dust help unravel past climate change
Tiny amounts of salt and dust trapped in the
Antarctic ice sheet for the last 740,000 years shed new light on changes
to the Earth's climate. 23 Mar 2006
CO2 'highest for 650,000 years' Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon
dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in
the past 650,000 years. Nov 24 2005
Antarctic ozone hole growing
Ozone layer may take decades to mend The winter hole in the ozone layer above
Antarctica appears to have grown from last year August 23, 2005
Rare volcanic eruption on ice-covered Sandwich island
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British territory is expanding rapidly in the
South Atlantic, thanks to this eruption on Mount Belinda. Nov 23 2005
East Antarctica puts on weight Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise.
East Antarctica may be piling on the pounds, but glaciers in the west
are accelerating into the ocean. 19th May 2005
900,000-year-old ice may destroy US case on Kyoto
An Italian expedition to the Antarctic has taken a sample
of ice which is more than 900,000 years old and could give scientists
evidence of past climate changes which would discredit global warming
doubters. April 23, 2005
Carbon dioxide role in past climate revealed Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
and the University of California, Santa Cruz have discovered that
Earth's last great global warming period, 3 million years ago, may have
been caused by levels of CO2 in the atmosphere similar to today's. 11
Apr 2005
Antarctic's ice 'melting faster'
A team of UK researchers claims to have new evidence
that global warming is melting the ice in Antarctica faster than had previously
been thought. 2nd Feb 2005
Grass flourishes in warmer Antarctic
Grass has become established in Antarctica
for the first time, showing the continent is warming to temperatures unseen
for 10,000 years. Dec 26th 2004
Piece of Mars lands in Antarctica A new Martian
meteorite has been discovered in Antarctica, the US space agency has announced.
An Antarctic Search for Meteorites... 21st July 2004
Oldest Antarctic ice core reveals
climate history Secrets of the Earth's past climate locked in a
three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed.
9th June
2004
New Dinosaur Species Dug Up In Antarctica Against incredible
odds, researchers working in separate sites, thousands of miles apart in
Antarctica have found what they believe are the fossilized remains of two
species of dinosaurs previously unknown to science. 1st March 2004
Warming warning for Antarctica
September 09 2003 The face
of Antarctica will change in the next 100 years as ice melts, glaciers retreat,
penguins move south and green plants begin to colonise bare rocks of the
Antarctic peninsula, researchers warned yesterday.
Solar contribution to 'global warming' predicted
to decrease
1 October 2003 New research on the sun's
contribution to global warming is reported in this month's Astronomy & Geophysics.
By looking at solar activity over the last 11,000 years, British Antarctic
Survey (BAS) astrophysicist, Mark Clilverd, predicts that the sun's contribution
to warming the Earth will reduce slightly over the next 100 years.
Ozone hole over Antarctica shrinks The ozone hole
over Antarctica is markedly smaller this year than in the last few years
and has split in two, government scientists reported...
Sea change threatens Antarctic life
September 10 2002. Sensitive
Antarctic species including giant sea spiders, huge submarine relatives
of the woodlouse and sea gooseberries the size of footballs could perish
as Southern ocean waters warm by 2-3C (3.6-5.4F) in the next century,
Fatal attraction
July 4th 2002. The Earth could
be about to turn upside down. The planet's magnetic field is showing signs
of wanting to make a gigantic somersault, so that magnetic north heads towards
Antarctica, and magnetic south goes north. Compasses will point the wrong
way, and ...
A world of fire or ice?
March 21 2002. With global warming dominating the climate change debate,
it is surprising to think that just a few decades ago, all the talk was
of a new ice age. To many, this is simply another example of scientists
doing a U-turn. In fact, nothing much has changed.
Robot submarine reveals secret stash of key Antarctic food source under
sea ice. March 5th 2002. A robot submarine expedition under the
Antarctic sea ice has discovered a major food reserve in the Southern Ocean.
Antarctica ice bridge linking islands 'snaps'
An ice bridge linking a vast shelf
of ice to two islands in Antarctica has snapped, providing
the latest evidence of rapid climate change, say scientists.
5th Apr 2009
Alpine mountain range revealed beneath Antarctic ice A series of prefabricated buildings
perched on stilts create a boxy but unremarkable hamlet on
the Antarctic ice. What is astonishing about this research
base is that it is set 500 metres above the peaks of a
3500-metre mountain range. Feb 24th 2009
Antarctic winter ice gets bigger; Arctic shrinks
The amount of sea ice around
Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be
an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts said.
Fri Sep 12, 2008
Antarctic ice
shelf ‘hangs by a thread’ British Antarctic Survey has
captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic
ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from
the Antarctic Peninsula. Mar 25th 2008
Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean UK scientists working in Antarctica have found
some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of
West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to
a significant rise in global sea level. Feb 24 2008
Alaskan storm cracks iceberg in Antarctica
A BAD storm in Alaska last October generated an
ocean swell that broke apart a giant iceberg near Antarctica six days later,
US researchers have reported. 3rd October 2006
Antarctic Peninsula glaciers in widespread retreat
The first comprehensive study of glaciers around the
coast of the Antarctic Peninsula reveals the real impact of recent
climate change. 21 Apr 2005
Iceberg takes
bite out of Antarctica
Collision forces maps to be redrawn.
A broad view of McMurdo Sound on April 15 reveals a chunk
broken from the Drygalski ice tongue and another crack at the end of the
tongue where the iceberg B-15A has hit it. 18 Apr 2005
Antarctic ice shelf retreats happened before
The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves is not new
according to research published this week in the journal Geology by scientists
from Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
23rd Feb 2005
The iceberg cometh It's 76 miles long, 17 miles wide and contains
enough water to supply the population of the UK for 60 years. Impressive?
Not if you're a penguin... Dec 15th 2004
Antarctic glaciers slipping faster into the sea Antarctic
glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the sea, according to
several new studies. 23rd Sept 2004
Iceberg recount clears global warming of blame Increased numbers
of large icebergs off Antarctica's coast are not necessarily due to global
warming, according to US research. ... the number of icebergs have remained
the same from 1978 to the 1990s.
Antarctica: Where the Ice Flows in Reverse
Scientists have discovered a hitherto unheard of phenomenon,
that of a glacier flowing back on itself, reversing the direction it had
been following in the last 250 years.
Antarctica sends 500 billion tonne warning of
the effects of global warming
March 20 2002. An area of ice
thought to weigh almost 500 billion tonnes has broken off the Antarctic
continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs in one of the most dramatic
examples yet of the effects of climate change.
Satellite images have revealed the collapse of Larsen B ice shelf on
the Antarctic Peninsula fulfilling predictions made by British Antarctic
Survey (BAS) scientists. The collapse of the 3250 km² ice shelf is the latest
drama in a region of Antarctica that has experienced unprecedented warming
over the last 50 years.
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