WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose ...
Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
David Barr specializes in taking photographs underwater and in Antarctica. From taking photos of dangerous leopard seals underwater to the whole fi...
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky t...
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
MOSCOW — A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself...
Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...
GlobalPost | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
CAPE ROYDS, Antarctica : This spit of black volcanic rock that juts out along the coast of Antarctica is an inhospitable place. Temperatures drop belo...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.
British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That's where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
Some of those areas are about a mile thick, so they've still got plenty of ice to burn through. But the drop in thickness is speeding up. In parts of Antarctica, the yearly rate of thinning from 2003 to 2007 is 50 percent higher than it was from 1995 to 2003.
These new measurements, based on 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite, confirm what some of the more pessimistic scientists thought: The melting along the crucial edges of the two major ice sheets is accelerating and is in a self-feeding loop. The more the ice melts, the more water surrounds and eats away at the remaining ice.
"To some extent it's a runaway effect. The question is how far will it run?" said the study's lead author, Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey. "It's more widespread than we previously thought."
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.
Paul Watson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.
Matt Weinstein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
Some genuine "wealth" in our lives is always created when we reach out to each other, when we make connections with each other, when we form a community together in times of crisis.
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
BERLIN — Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 s...
Lea Lane | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
These photos show the beauty and fragility of our polar world, and I hope that they help remind us to treat our vulnerable planet with respect and love.
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Hidden in the bone-chilling dark beneath an Antarctic glacier, a colony of strange bacteria is thriving. Scientists investigating t...
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.13.2009 | Green
Conservatives tend to be all but immune to inconvenient data of climate change, citing marginal studies and anecdotal evidence scientifically proven by looking out your bedroom window.
nytimes.com | Jeffrey Marlow | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green
Cynics see the bases in a more sinister light: by claiming a presence in the Antarctic, one is better-positioned to exploit the local resources should...
AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
GENEVA — Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise s...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific e...
AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
BRUSSELS — Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the c...
The Japan Times Online | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
The hardline antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Monday accused Japanese whalers of using illegal weapons systems to repel its vess...
Reuters | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
"Seal brains ... I would consider one of the delicacies and luxuries of the Antarctic, and was enjoyed by most members of the base when I was chef," t...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
The president was vague about what the mission to Antarctica would entail, but he did indicate that it could take "up to four years."
Jerry Cope | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Will Congress and the American people give our new President and his administration the support necessary to embark on the path to a long term sustainable future not only for ourselves, but the world?
Reuters | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Anti-whaling activists are prepared to end aggressive protests against Japan's scientific whale cull if Australia or New Zealand agree to challenge th...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Seven penguin species have reason to have happy feet: The Bush administration is moving to protect them. But three other types of p...
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment
Werner Herzog is well into one of the most eclectic, odd and engaging movie careers, one that jumps from personal epics to quixotic documentary films, and now even Hollywood spectacles.
AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green