News: Antarctica

We have started to collect the most important news related to Antarctica in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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• February 26th 2016 – March 26th 2015
• January 12th 2015 – January 2nd 2014
• December 31st 2013 – April 9th 2013
• March 15th 2013 – December 12th 2012
• December 12th 2012 – April 6th 2012
• March 6th 2012 – November 2nd 2011
• September 6th 2011 – June 20th 2010
• January 2nd 2010 – January 20th 2008
• January 14th 2008 – December 7th 2005

Antarctica: news

Alien invaders threaten Antarctic

Tuesday, March 6th 2012, 3:26

The fringes of Antarctica are being invaded by alien plants and tiny animals, scientists have found, with the average visitor carrying 9.5 seeds.
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UK woman crosses Antarctica solo

Monday, January 23rd 2012, 12:57
related countries: United Kingdom

Briton Felicity Aston has become the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.
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VIDEO: Search for life under Antarctic ice

Monday, January 16th 2012, 7:11
related countries: United Kingdom

British scientists in Antarctica are planning to drill into an underground lake two miles below the ice, to gather samples that may contain new forms of life.
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Vietnam crew killed in ship fire

Thursday, January 12th 2012, 3:34
related countries: North Korea, New Zealand, United States, Vietnam

New Zealand officials confirm three Vietnamese crewmen died when a South Korean fishing boat caught fire in Antarctica, as a US vessel treats injured crew.
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Fire on S Korea ship in Antarctic

Wednesday, January 11th 2012, 5:16
related countries: North Korea

Three crew members are thought to have died on a South Korean fishing boat that caught fire in Antarctica, officials say.
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Russian boat sails for open water

Wednesday, December 28th 2011, 2:53
related countries: Russia
related places: Sparta

Russian fishing boat Sparta makes its way to open water after being stuck in ice-filled seas off Antarctica for 12 days with a hole in its hull.
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VIDEO: A new home for Earth's meteorites

Wednesday, December 21st 2011, 3:45

The BBC's Jane O'Brien goes to a new facility at the Smithsonian Institution in Maryland where meteorites found in Antarctica are stored and studied
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'Ghost mountains mystery solved'

Thursday, November 17th 2011, 11:49

Scientists think they can now explain the existence of what are perhaps Earth's most extraordinary mountains - the ice-entombed Gamburtsevs of Antarctica.
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VIDEO: Migrating whale numbers hit 50-year high

Tuesday, November 15th 2011, 4:54
related countries: Australia

The migrating whales travel on a 5,000km round trip to give birth off the coast of Australia before heading back to Antarctica to their main feeding grounds.
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Major berg forming in Antarctica

Thursday, November 3rd 2011, 18:51
related countries: Germany
related places: Berlin

Scientists are monitoring a big rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica that will eventually calve an iceberg the size of Berlin.
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Five things Scott found in Antarctica

Wednesday, November 2nd 2011, 4:44

Five strange things Captain Scott found in the Antarctic
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