Antarctic
Post office team picked for Antarctic Port Lockroy base
Image copyright UKAHT Image caption Supplies are delivered via cruise ships, then carried and sorted by the team on shore Five people have beaten off competition from more than 200 people to run the UK’s most remote post office in Antarctica. The team will man the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust’s post office at Port Lockroy …
Climate change: Antarctic Peninsula ‘can still avoid irreversible change’
Image copyright Maxar DigitalGlobe Image caption The Wilkins Ice Shelf underwent a series of fragmentation events from the late 2000s onwards Even if global warming can be kept to a 1.5-degree Celsius rise from pre-industrial times, the Antarctic Peninsula is set for some big changes. This is the assessment of an expert panel of scientists. …
‘Precipitous’ fall in Antarctic sea ice since 2014 revealed | World news
The vast expanse of sea ice around Antarctica has suffered a fall since 2014, satellite data shows, and fell at a faster rate than seen in the Arctic. The plunge in the average annual extent means Antarctica lost as much sea ice in four years as the Arctic lost in 34 years. The cause of …
‘Jet in a box’ powers remote Halley Antarctic base
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProf David Vaughan: “This is still a prototype system. If the turbine falls over, we lose all power” The UK has managed to get one of its major Antarctic bases operating in an automatic mode for the first time. Halley base, on the Brunt Ice Shelf, is …
Antarctic glaciers to honour ‘satellite heroes’
A series of glaciers in the Antarctic are being named after the satellites that have revealed the changing state of the White Continent. The spacecraft, from Europe, the US and Japan, have all contributed important observational data which confirms a picture of accelerating ice loss. They include the pioneering American Landsat series of satellites and …