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Antarctica served as a climatic refuge for animals during the world's largest known, and probably global warming-fueled, mass extinction event, according to new research that focused on one scrappy survivor.
Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Earth's last great icy citadel, the East Antarctica Ice Sheet, is beginning to crumble under warming.
Ships Warned Over Rare Northerly Sightings of Massive Flotilla of Ice Split Off from Antarctica
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday. The nearest one was 160 miles so...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk...
An expedition is gearing up to drill through ice sheets in Antarctica to study what lives underneath, and LSU researchers are playing a key role.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Navigation warnings have been issued for the area south of New Zealand thanks to a large formation of icebergs.
Scientists caused quite a stir in 1996 when they announced a meteorite had been found in Antarctica that might contain evidence for microscopic fossils of Martian bacteria. While subsequent studies of the now famous Alan Hills Meteorite shot down theories that the Mars rock held fossilized alien life, both sides debated the issue and [...]
David Barr specializes in taking photographs underwater and in Antarctica.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Icebergs drifting northward from Antarctica could become a tourist attraction as they near New Zealand.
Associated Press - November 25, 2009 11:24 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - An expedition is gearing up to drill through ice sheets in Antarctica to study what lives underneath, and LSU...
A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis of ice core records suggests that Antarctic temperatures may have been up to 6°C warmer than the present day.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand authorities are warning ships to be on the look out for icebergs drifting north from Antarctica and say they could pose a hazard as they approach the coast of South Island.
