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  Non-Lethal Whale Research Program Begins
  A new non-lethal whale research program has begun in the Antarctic
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Mar 15, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “antarctic”

 

• Scientists discover new site of potential instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

  
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  University of Texas at Austin News : Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of scientists from the U.S. and U.K. have uncovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nearly the size of New Jersey beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) near the Weddell Sea. The location, shape and ...
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• Fresh hockey sticks from the Southern Hemisphere

  
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  In the Northern Hemisphere, the late 20th / early 21st century has been the hottest time period in the last 400 years at very high confidence, and likely in the last 1000 – 2000 years (or more). It has been unclear whether this is also true in the Southern Hemisphere. Three studies out this week shed considerable ...
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• Protect Antarctic waters before it’s too late, says environment coalition

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Protect Antarctic waters before it’s too late, says environment coalition The Antarctic Ocean Alliance is urging the UK government to protect one of the last true frontier areas before it is damaged irreparably by human interferenceA huge swath of the waters off Antarctica must ...
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• New Vision for Antarctic Marine Protection

  
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    Written by Steve Campbell, Campaign Director, Antarctic Ocean Alliance This week, the Antarctic Ocean Alliance is stepping up its campaign to protect the Southern Ocean. At an event in London today, the AOA unveils a new vision for the creation of the world’s largest network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and ...
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• Protecting Antarctica, the heart of the ocean

  
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  Blogpost by Veronica Frank, Greenpeace International – May 21, 2012 For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the ...
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• 60% reduction in 40 years in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water, the cold dense water that drives global ocean currents

  
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  Latest Southern Ocean research shows continuing deep ocean change by John Hartz, Skeptical Science , May 21, 2012 This is a reprint of a  press release  posted by the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)   May 4, 2012. New research by teams of Australian ...
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• MV Ocean Nova call at Oban opens up some travel options

  
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  An immediately unusual boat – the MV Ocean Nova, was at Oban’s North pier – and was the length of it – on Friday 18th May. Long, narrow, tall, sheltered, with expansive observation facilities, five or six Zodiacs stacked on her top deck and a stout bow, she seemed built for action and possibly action in cold ...
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• Baby Antarctic Penguin Meets Man For First Time

  
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  This adorable video has started to trend after first being featured on SayOMG . While recording in Antarctica,  joeloleson  got up close and personal with a curious baby penguin. Careful of its beak!   
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• Baby Penguin meets human for the first time

  
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  Baby Penguin meets human for the first time Antarctic gentoo penguin meets a man for the first time. A true darwin moment. From: joeloleson Views: 286 7 ratings Time: 00:53 More in Pets & Animals
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• Ship tears through Antarctic ice to rescue Russian boat

  
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  An icebreaker ship has made its way though the ice to rescue Russian boat Sparta, which has been trapped in the Antarctic for more than a week. Report by Sophie Foster. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com
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• Fossils of bird-like dinosaurs discovered in Australia

  
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  Sydney, May 18 (IANS) Seven different killer dinosaurs once inhabited what is now southeastern Australia, ranging in size from cat-sized killers to a nine-metre-long T. Rex-like predator.The discovery represents a higher than expected biodiversity of meat-eating, theropod (bird-like) dinosaur fossils from between 105 ...
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• Climate Science Weekly Research Roundup

  
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    Ari Jokimäki recently published one of his regular roundups of climate science research news. Since you probably haven’t seen many (or any) of these stories in the mainstream media, I’m reposting the roundup here in full. The post is from AGW Observer (via Skeptical Science ). Enjoy! by Ari Jokimäki ...
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• New paper using RADARSAT data: Antarctic ice shelves slowed down – “…have not been changed in a significant way in the past 12 years”

  
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  A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT data to determine the rate at which some well known ice shelves in Antarctica have been moving and changing, and the answer is: … Continue reading →
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• Frozen Planet DVD

  
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  Destination: North and South Poles DVD: Frozen Planet, (NEW April 2012) narrated by David Attenborough, produced by BBC Earth Although travel to the “last” continent, Antarctic seems almost commonplace these days,  a cruise into the Antarctic sea or a night or two in a luxury camp still is comparable ...
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• At Least 3 Companies Submit Bids To Operate French and Territorial ccTLDs

  
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  At least three and up to six companies have submitted bids to operate the .FR (France) ccTLD and the ten French territory ccTLDs currently managed by AFNIC. Bids were required to be submitted to the French Ministry of Industry by Friday for the 11 ccTLDs, and so far the current ccTLD manager AFNIC, along with ...
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• AFNIC Submits Applications To Manage 11 French TLDs

  
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  On 11 May, AFNIC submitted its applications to manage the 11 French country code top level domains (ccTLDs) with the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. Following the publication in the Official Journal of the French Republic on 20 March calling for applications to manage the ccTLDs for France and its ...
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• Why Did Robert Falcon Scott’s Expedition Fail?

  
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              Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer. He led two expeditions to the South Pole, and died on the disastrous second trip, along with his crew. His expedition was the second to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. On his first expedition, Scott sailed along ...
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• Evidence from octopus hints at ice sheet collapse

  
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  Sydney, May 10 (IANS) Genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus indicates that the West Antarctic ice sheet - one of the world’s major ice sheets - could collapse if temperatures keep climbing.Researchers analysed the genes of the Turquet’s octopus, which lives in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, ...
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• Timeliness, timelessness, and the boy with no birthdays

  
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  By Geraldine McCaughrean As Captain Scott sat in his tent in the Antarctic in 1912, pinioned between the dead bodies of Birdie and Uncle Bill, he wrote countless valedictory notes to people he would never see again, in places half a world away.  One was to the godfather of his son, expressing his love and ...
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• Video Of The Day: Midnight Sun Shines In Iceland

  
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  Filed under: Europe , Iceland , Video The " midnight sun " is a natural phenomenon occurring north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle when the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day. Since there are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, ...
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