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• in Lifestyle
  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”

 

• The Antarctic – you absolutely have to go!!!

  
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  Photographer Christine Bernasconi traveled to Antarctica with Quark this past season and has put together an incredible summary of her experience. She’s agreed to let us share it here – thanks Christine! “The ship carried 114 passengers of which 49 of them were Australian. Being such a small group meant ...
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• Antarctica Saw More Visitors In 2012

  
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  Filed under: Antarctica , Ecotourism , News , Luxury Travel Earlier this week, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) concluded their 24th annual meeting in Punta Arenas, Chile . Topics at the gathering included strategic planning for sustainable tourism in the Antarctic, methods ...
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• Ocean acidification state in western Antarctic surface waters: drivers and interannual variability

  
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  Each December during four years from 2006 to 2010, the surface water carbonate system was measured and investigated in the Amundsen Sea and Ross Sea, western Antarctica as part of the Oden Southern Ocean expeditions (OSO). The I/B Oden started in Punta Arenas in Chile and sailed southwest, passing through different ...
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• I Heart My City: Kate’s Christchurch

  
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  When travel blogger Kate Voyage  isn’t   scouring the globe for adventure (and sharing her findings on her personal website and on Twitter @30Traveler ), this Kiwi turns her attention to the home front. “Christchurch has all the big city conveniences,” she says, “but with fewer traffic jams.” She also ...
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• The Coldest Journey Update: Slow Going In The Antarctic Winter

  
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  It has been awhile since we checked in on the progress of the Coldest Journey team. You may recall that this group of five adventurers, which includes Brits Spencer Smirl, Ian Prickett, Rob Lambert, Richmond Dykes and Brian Newham, are attempting to cross Antarctica on foot in the dead of winter, something that has ...
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• Antarctic Icebreaker Time-Lapse

  
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  Marine scientist and science writer Cassandra Brooks spent two months aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, an icebreaker ship operated by the US National Science Foundation. Brooks highlights her two-month journey, through Antarctica’s Ross Sea, in this five-minute time-lapse entitled ‘Two Months Breaking Ice (In Under ...
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• Two Months Aboard an Antarctic Ice Breaker, In 5 Minutes

  
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  I recently read Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , the astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, and it’s too cool to see this massive ice breaking ship rather effortlessly plow through Antarctica’s Ross Sea. The footage is sped ...
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• World Meteorological Organization confirms 2012 was ninth warmest year on record – ‘The sustained warming of the lower atmosphere is a worrisome sign’

  
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  GENEVA, 2 May 2013 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year. The 2012 global land and ...
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• 11 facts about penguins

  
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  By Georgia Mierswa Happy World Penguin Day! And what better way to celebrate than by looking at photos of penguins waddling, swimming, diving, and generally looking adorable. Penguin facts are lifted from the Oxford Index’s overview page entry on penguins (on the seabird, not the 1950s R&B group). ...
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• Anthony Montgomery promoting ‘Miles Away’ at Golden Apple Comics

  
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  Star Trek: Enterprise‘s Anthony Montgomery‘s can add to his list of accomplishments, comic creator, as his new graphic novel entitled, ‘Miles Away’ comic, published by Antarctic Press, is now available [...]
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• Ski To The South Pole Just Like Prince Harry!

  
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  Filed under: Skiing , Antarctica Yesterday, we told you that Britains Prince Harry is planning on joining an expedition to the South Pole later this year in an effort to raise funds and awareness for the Walking with the Wounded program. The adventurous Prince will take part in a cross-country skiing race ...
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• What Goes Around Comes Around

  
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  Our economic woes and the odd act of terrorism have distracted us from the fact that the weather in many places in the world is playing unusual tricks. In the United States of America, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Indiana and Iowa have suffered from record levels of rainfall. Properties that never ...
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• Video: EpicTV Interviews Mike Libecki

  
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  Explorer and climber Mike Libecki was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for putting up first ascents in Borneo and making first descents on snowboards in Afghanistan. Recently he sat down with the crew over at EpicTV to conduct a video interview of what he has been up to since. In the interview ...
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• Sharing your travel experience with friends and family

  
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  You make sure to pack your best camera and a bunch of additional memory cards. You take hundreds, maybe even thousands of incredible photos – perfect icebergs, chubby little penguins, the fluke of a humpback whale disappearing into the water. You arrive back home, maybe you post an album on facebook, maybe you have ...
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• Ice hockey

  
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  Eric Steig It is well known that ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula have collapsed on several occasions in the last couple of decades, that ice shelves in West Antarctica are thinning rapidly , and that the large outlet glaciers that drain the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) are accelerating. The rapid ...
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• Britains Prince Harry To Ski To The South Pole This Year

  
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  We already knew that Prince Harry had an adventurous streak. In 2011 he joined a team of soldiers who had been wounded in battle on a trek to the North Pole. Harry is the patron of the Walking with the Wounded organization and although other obligations (namely is brothers royal wedding!) kept him from going all ...
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• Summer Ice Melt Increases Ten-fold on Antarctic Peninsula, Is Now Nonlinear, Fastest In Over 1000 Years

  
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  by   Joe Romm , Climate Progress ,  April 15, 2013 Scientist : “The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed to a level where even small increases in temperature can now lead to a big increase in summer ice melt.” Credit: British Antarctic Survey A new study finds “a nearly tenfold increase in ...
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• Global Contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water between the 1980s and 2000s, by S. G. Purkey & G. C. Johnson, J. Climate, 25 (2012)

  
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  Purkey, Sarah G., Gregory C. Johnson, 2012: Global Contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water between the 1980s and 2000s*.  J. Climate ,  25 , 5830–5844. doi:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00612.1 Global Contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water between the 1980s and 2000s * Sarah G.   Purkey ...
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• Readers, a must-read: The Antarctic Half of the Global Thermohaline Circulation Is Faltering

  
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  by FishOutofWater Follow for Ocean Advocates,  Daily Kos, April 10, 2013 The sudden cooling of Europe, triggered by collapse of the global thermohaline circulation in the north Atlantic and the slowing of the Gulf Stream has been popularized by the movies and the media. The southern half of the ...
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• Australia to tackle Japan on whaling at UN world court

  
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  THE HAGUE, 12 April 2013 (AFP) – Australia is to fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations highest court in June aimed at stopping Japans whaling research programme in Antarctica. "The International Court of Justice … will hold public hearings in the case concerning whaling in the ...
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