SCAR (The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) is celebrating its 60th birthday. SCAR conducts international scientific research in the Antarctic region and studies the role of the Antarctic region in the Earth system. It also gives independent scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. Today, besides geo, physical and life sciences programmes, SCAR is involved […]
Recent research by the European Space Agency continues to confirm the complex interconnectedness of our planet’s weather and climate systems – including how the El Nino event in the Pacific Ocea affects ice shelves off Antarctica. For more on how El Nino is connected to planetary systems: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ElNino/
A unique event took place yesterday at the European Parliament (EP). It was a live web call with senior climatologist Dr Jérôme Chappellaz who is currently at the Franco-Italian Concordia Base in Antarctica, with EP Vice-President Heidi Hautala moderating in Brussels. I happily jumped at the opportunity, which was kindly offered to Commission officials as well. It […]
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.
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