Greenpeace has begun 2018 with the March of the Penguins. Model penguins have appeared in cities all over the world to promote its campaign to support calls to create the world’s biggest wildlife reserve in Antarctica. The proposal was originally put forward by the EU, which presented a request for a marine protected area (MPA) […]
If you’d like to know more about the kind of science going on in the Antarctic, visit the new European Polar Board website launched in December 2017. It has a round-up of some interesting projects: http://www.europeanpolarboard.org/activities/scientific-initiatives/
Scientists in the US are about to share some two million newly digitised images from radar surveys of Antarctica conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. The images let researchers ‘see’ hundreds or even thousands of metres down through the ice to the bedrock below. This should provide new insights into how the ice sheet has […]
Scientists advising the BBC’s Blue Planet II series on life in the seas are horrified at the amount of plastic that now reaches even the world’s remotest places. Antarctica is no exception and albatrosses in the Southern Ocean are being killed by human rubbish. Read more….
Extraordinary images of a striped iceberg from the Institute Polaire français Paul-Emile Victor. See them here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x65ftwq
British Antarctic Survey scientist Dr Robert Mulvaney explains the European ‘Beyond Epica’ project and what it’s like to be part of the ongoing hunt for the oldest ice record. Read his personal account here.
Début 2017, Annabelle Kremer, formatrice à la Maison pour la science en Alsace est partie vivre deux mois à la station Dumont d’Urville, Terre Adélie, Antarctique. Elle est rentrée avec quelques vidéos.
Italian and French Researchers have found that winds blowing in Antarctica constitute a fundamental element regarding climate, may-be even more than temperatures. The so-called “katabatic winds”, i.e winds descending from the continent down to the sea at great speed, are so strong they provoke the formation of sea-ice, which in turn has consequences on the […]
Some 17,700 years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions occurred in Antarctica. They lasted for 192 years, and coïncided with a dramatic change in climate: winds, sea ice, ocean circulation… everything was affected on and around the continent. The volcanoes emitted loads of halogen gas, which may even have been responsible for the creation of […]
Scientists have found plastic waste almost everywhere on Earth and Antarctica’s once pristine seas and shorelines are also being polluted with debris and particles of microplastics. Over the next three years, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will be conducting research to assess the impact of plastic on the polar regions. Read more.
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