News Stories relating to "antarctica"

Recently pictures of "frozen waves" from the Antarctic have been floating around the internet, pretending to show that it's so cold down under that ocean waves are literally freezing as they break. The reality is that it's summer in the southern hemisphere, and it has been so hot that Adelaide, Australia has experienced a once in 3,000 year...

The melting ice sheets in Antarctica are a major news item. However, Antarctica is having a lesser-known problem as well: it has become a new tourist destination. The bacteria from the feet of thousands of visitors could cause ecological devastation in the area.

Almost 15,000 tourists a year visit this pristine wilderness area, arriving...

Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have detected another in an increasing series of massive icebergs which have broken off the continent of Antarctica. The new iceberg measures roughly 47 miles by 4.6 miles, or almost ten times the area of Manhattan.

The breakdown of the Antarctic ice sheet,...

As parts of Antarctica are fall into the sea, new satellite data shows that these dramatic changes are affecting the growth of small organisms important to the local food chain. Icebergs that have broken off from the Ross Ice Shelf have caused a 40 percent reduction in the size of the 2000-2001 plankton bloom in one of Antarctica's most...

Tim Naish, of the New Zealand Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, warns that Antarctic?s huge ice shelves may break up completely as the global climate warms. The recent collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica was ?a wakeup call to expect more collapses,? he says and believes that such collapses have ?a dramatic effect on...