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Mr Lamers said the benefits of Antarctic tourism had to be balanced with the environmental impacts.

Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.

Contrary to expectations, they had not tucked into the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, which only occurs farther south in colder waters.

The British Antarctic Survey said the ice shelf was "hanging by a thread" .

Antarctic sea ice, for instance, does not seem to be shrinking, probably because increased melting is balanced by more snow.

So far the winds have been, shall we say, persistent, which requires a full Antarctic wardrobe to go outside for any length of time.

"For whatever reason, they were still hanging out on the Antarctic continent, " Case said in a statement.

So Glover analyzed the DNA of the 1996 whale captured in the North Atlantic, and found a shocker: It was a pure Antarctic whale.

Late 1911, early 1912, there was a race to be the first to the South Pole: the heart of the Antarctic continent.

For the first two years I was in the Antarctic I was in awe of many explorers but then I began to have the authority to challenge them.

Japan should think about giving up Antarctic "research" , he said, in return for a limited resumption of commercial coastal whaling.

Like the novella on which it's based, the film will take place in the Antarctic, where humans encounter a race called the Ancient Ones.

When Chris finally arrives at the Antarctic facility and he manages to rescue Claire, but is separated from her once again by Alexia.

All these Antarctic babies growing up on the ice must be ready to take the plunge by the end of the summer.

"In the Antarctic, the impact of the ozone hole and the surface climate is becoming evident, " he said.

The sea level pressure will decrease over lands, but increase over the subtropical oceans and parts of the oceans around the Antarctic.

Not until the late 18th century did the British explorer James Cook cross the Antarctic Circle, but he never saw land.

That flow of cold water keeps Antarctic marine life -- especially the bottom-dwelling creatures -- isolated.

Penguins may not be used to sand - after all, the icy conditions of the Antarctic are very far from sunny beaches.

Global warming is forcing ice shelves to calve, producing icebergs like this monolith jutting into the waters of the Antarctic Peninsula.

A tartan to help raise money for the British Antarctic Survey, a government organisation for scientific study.

Japan suspended its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic, after vessels from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society hounded one of its whalers.

A leopard seal swims in turquoise waters just below the surface as a jagged Antarctic ice floe looms in the background.

"When you go into the hut, it feels as if the explorers have only just walked out, " the Antarctic Heritage Trust's Morgan said.

the geographic South Pole is at the center of the Antarctic continent, but the magnetic pole is hundreds of miles away, near the coast.

Sitting near the top of the food chain, the king penguins are useful markers for the health of the rest of the Antarctic ecosystem.

Sperm whales, also found in the Antarctic, lie at the surface blowing repeatedly so as not to get the bends.

Did you see the way the Antarctic bird is living in an air-conditioned room under the stairs in a hot and humid city?

Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.

The ship is Australia's flagship Antarctic vessel, and is operated by the Australian Antarctic Division.

The account of his adventure in Antarctic is a sheer flight of imagination.

Icebergs grind against the shallows off the Rothera base, run by the British Antarctic Survey, on the Antarctic Peninsula, January 25, 2009.

his way onto an Antarctic supply vessel.

Originally I was a research diver for the British Antarctic Survey project, but for me science lacked excitement.

If someone said to me, the Antarctic penguins and seals and OuDiao is the heaven, I said to him: no, Antarctica and dog.

A Study of the Antarctic Surface Energy Budget Using a Polar Regional Atmospheric Model Forced with Satellite-Derived Cloud Properties.

"We have detected the human fingerprint in both the Arctic and Antarctic region[s], " says Peter Stott , a climate modeler at the U. K.

That dream wizard waved his hands, I saw the scenery of the Antarctic and Arctic.

Pine Island glacier (PIG) is one of many at the fringes of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

This "secret" wartime project became the civilian Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and later the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Some, though, will depend on the behaviour of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps, which cannot be predicted with any certainty.

Don't forget, on the Antarctic continent, a story, a group of men, the coldest adventure.

She snapped this photo of a tabular iceberg in the Antarctic Sound and said it was still light out at the time, despite being 11: 30 p. m.

The exact reason is unclear but it may be that the bands drag on the penguins during their swimming flights through Antarctic waters.

Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.

THAT THE AREA of the West Antarctic ice sheet drained by the Ross ice streams is in less danger of imminent collapse is good news.

"There was always the chance they may not find the other huts or reach them, " Antarctic Heritage Trust's Morgan said.

Our last stop was the International Antarctic Center in Christchurch, America's launching station for our operations in Antarctica.

Unusually low temperatures also affected parts of Antarctica, especially west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The reason so much ozone has been lost over the Arctic and Antarctic is the presence of chlorine in the upper atmosphere.

Opponents of this annual hunt plan to take legal action to stop Japan from operating in Australia's Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.

This is the result of global warming, David Vaughan, a scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, said Tuesday.

Residual-Mean Solutions for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Its Associated Overturning Circulation.

The south pole is the subject of an Antarctic treaty but there is no similar arrangement for the far north.

The Antarctic Peninsula has seen some of the fastest temperature rises on Earth in the last five decades.

The elimination of a puzzle casual games, helping the small labyrinth of Antarctic penguins return to the home.

The little carnivore -- about 6 feet tall -- was found on James Ross Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

It's also the only Antarctic station built entirely during the International Polar Year.

The most dangerous part of the Antarctic ice cap is in the west, where much of the continent lies slightly below sea level.

The seal feels perfectly safe lying on the Antarctic ice even if it is surrounded by a pod of killer whales.

The Arctic and the Antarctic as a very day-and Polar night phenomenon became more obvious near the North Pole.

None of these men have retraced his pioneering journeys in the Antarctic or the Arctic.

The Auckland Islands are one of the bleakest places on Earth, situated in the sub-Antarctic region, 465km south of New Zealand.

The protection of the Antarctic from commercial exploitation is an important goal of environmentalists.

Movie Antarctic adventures of content, more let person performing the movie is to show the world out of the thick earth.

Conclusions: Minimally invasive treatment of the Antarctic expedition camp barbed recurrent oral ulcer team significantly.

To what extent can the 2002 Antarctic major stratospheric warming be explained by horizontal advection of the vortex from the pole ?

Paradise : Antarctic animals on the game are the whitest whitest too monotonous, play your imagination. Let Antarctic become Colorful!

The 200-odd Antarctic whalers and the bureaucrats that back them are just the kind of special interest the DPJ claims to take on.

That expansion contrasts with the common public perception of a uniformly melting Antarctic.

Antarctic tourism and environmental protection bring new tests for the wisdom of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties.

By the early 1900s, after a century of hunting, only a relict population of Antarctic fur seals survived on South Georgia.

austral Of the south temperate region, between the antarctic and tropical regions. Opposite of boreal .

Atmospheric histories of halocarbons from analysis of Antarctic firn air: Methyl bromide, methyl chloride, chloroform, and dichloromethane.

There is 10 feet of sea level rise stored up in the unstable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

This tiny shrimp-like creature is one of the smallest animals in the Antarctic.

When the ship hit an iceberg it was sucked down into the icy Antarctic waters.

One sign that the Antarctic Plate is moving is a recent huge crack across the Pine Island Glacier there.

These, however, were at this time the known normal climatological values because no other Antarctic ozone data were available.

In the Antarctic the need to provide artificial light is a small price to pay for fresh food, given the cost of importing it.

The accelerating flow of these and more than 400 other Antarctic Peninsula glaciers is adding to sea-level rise.

Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

Australia's opposition party is warning the new government not to use the military to track Japanese whaling activities in the Antarctic.

"It's a real head spinner, " says Tas van Ommen at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania.

Brian Hardin (Iron Worker): Stay out here long enough, you get a free Antarctic nose job; little here, little there, gone, free of charge.

Unfortunately for Zuma, control of S Africa is no more certain than control of either Antarctic or the new land to emerge.

The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing.

I'm trying to travel there to find 5, 000 year-old moss, which lives on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Many people like to see the flow of ice near the Antarctic.

What's happened is that the waters around the Antarctic peninsula have begun to get warmer.

the sun visible at midnight (inside the arctic or antarctic circles).

The research station of the South African National Antarctic Expedition, completed in 1997, is the oldest of this new generation.

Inspired by a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, the painting "became a group portrait of soon to be extinct things, " said Rockman.

That, the climatic information in the continent loess can be compared with records of Antarctic ice-core.

The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction.

Scientists expect that climate change will impact on the Antarctic marine ecosystem. A reduction in sea ice is one anticipated outcome.

His non-musical charitable activities included being honorary treasurer of the fund for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition.

That province of ice, a body of permanent floating ice about the size of Connecticut, lies on the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Nearly every Samoyed dog in the West today has ancestors that were used to explore the Arctic and Antarctic.

Mike: We're going to the beach, not on an expedition to the Antarctic. Come on. Let's get going.

South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging glaciers.

The extent, nature and significance of the Pan-African tectonothermal event in the East Antarctic Shield are the current discussed issue.

Now some scientists are criticizing the movie March of the Penguins for portraying the Antarctic seabirds almost as tiny, two-tone humans.

The Ady Gil had been harassing Japan's whaling fleet as part of Sea Shepherd's campaign to prevent whaling in Antarctic waters.

"Our results point to a profound influence of recent climate change on the Antarctic flora, " Robinson said.

The Antarctic Continent functions as one of Earth's "refrigerators" regulating the oceanic currents and the world's climate.

Though the species that have evolved to survive in harsh Antarctic conditions are necessarily tough, they're also delicate.

We have predicted that new land will emerge with the Antarctic Plate is pushed up between the tip of S American and Africa.

If I were younger, I would join you in the expedition to the Antarctic.

When the Antarctic voyage got under way, so many people were sick that the ship's doctor nearly ran out of .

All the whales killed in the Antarctic hunt have to pass through the Tokyo-based institute.

Runners arrive by boat on King George Island just off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

A huge chunk of Antarctic ice, about the size of Rhode Island, had recently broken free as a result of thawing.

"One quarter to one half of the Antarctic coastline has some substantial warming going on as of now, " Monaghan adds.

The scientists checked records for vulnerable faces of the Antarctic coast and studied models of the likely wave propagation.

Those are determined by temperature (warmer water takes up more room) and the size of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.

The other is thousands of miles away in the Antarctic krill, and their carcasses contain EPA is second to none.

The objective of this Convention is the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources.

Twelve men and women are going on an expedition to the Antarctic this summer, to climb to the highest point of the South Pole.

In all, it is estimated that more than 40 patents have been granted worldwide that rely on Antarctic flora and fauna , and the U.

As the UN talks inched on, news came that an "ice bridge" yoking the Wilkins ice shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula had snapped.

even with modern icebreakers , travelling to the freezing waters of the antarctic may still be life threatening.

Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt, handing a victory to anti-whaling activists who have been harassing its fleet.

"Eighty-seven percent of the alpine glaciers are in retreat, " said Martinson of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

One is human-induced climate in the Antarctic, the last continent where regional warming has been demonstrated.

Measurements taken over the south pole reflect changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheets.

Recent earthquake patterns along the border of the Antarctic Plate show that the entire plate is on the move.

These Antarctic cryptoendoliths are a type of lichen whose very name translates as "hiding inside rocks. "

A 47-year-old British plumber was chosen from more than 2000 applicants to work on the British Antarctic Survey in the South Pole.

In late Southern Hemisphere summer of 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated into thousands of pieces.

Penguins travel literally the ends of the Earth to protect their infants, facing Antarctic blizzards while they incubate their eggs.

And new land is expected to pop up between the tip of S America and Africa, the Antarctic plate popping up there.

Photo Gallery: Animal Fathers Traditional parenting roles are reversed for emperor penguins, which live only on the harsh Antarctic ice.

The study by SCAR suggested that sea levels could rise by up to 1. 4m by 2100 if the Antarctic ice began to melt.

Krill populations are dwindling, especially on the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming temperatures mean less sea ice.

When the gulf waters freeze over during the Antarctic winter, they hunt for the krill that lives underneath the ice surface.

Antarctic ice microalgae refers to micro algae which lives in the Antarctic sea ice, the sea ice edge or water.

The deforestation is the main cause of "green house effect" , it makes world warmer and the ice in Antarctic melting, sea level higher.

Long-term monitoring of the vibrations induced by ocean waves in Antarctic ice shelves is a recent phenomenon.

One thing remains clear, however, bands may be bad for the Antarctic birds but climate change will be even worse.

Although the Antarctic Treaty has called for limits this involves just 28 nations and needs to be strengthened.

Which flight target is flown on a given day is largely determined by difficult-to-forecast Antarctic weather conditions.

After Everest came more expeditions in Nepal, a race to the South Pole and further adventures in the Antarctic, the Himalayas and India.

The numerical modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet is an important way to improve our understanding of the behavior of the ice sheet.

Scientists thought large, wholly natural, year-to-year variations in Antarctic ozone would obscure any small upward trend.

Antarctic whales follow a similar pattern, moving between Antarctic ice and warmer mid-latitudes with the seasons.

Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity.

The fossils came from a site on Mt. Kirkpatrick, in the Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains, which divide east and west Antarctica.

The Antarctic ozone hole is more severe this year than ever before, and ozone levels over temperate regions are dipping as well.

Antarctica Satellite View The Antarctic continent is located in the South Pole of our Planet.

Several Antarctic specialists familiar with the new study had mixed reactions to the projections.

The explorers accomplished the difficult voyage from Shanghai to the Antarctic Continent in four weeks .

The sample do to white, and some of the analysis, a senior scientist discovered the Antarctic meteors scientist.

Another important element of our camp is the traditional Antarctic Scott tent.

the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline.

Seamen who went on the first great voyages of discovery in the Antarctic got their drinking water by melting blocks of ice.

The study, published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, was written in part by Chinese scientists close to the railway project.

of places far from inhabited places; without people; unvisited Antarctic is the loneliest place on the earth.

Medical Guarantee of Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition.

Each male emperor penguin holds his egg throughout the brutal, Antarctic winter months of May and June.

The Antarctic landscape, no less than the ice fields of Chile, can deliver surprises.

As much as 70 percent of the ozone above the high northern latitudes would get lost, a depletion comparable to the Antarctic ozone hole.

They will continue their journey on a naval ship, which will release them into the ocean in their Antarctic habitat.

A solitary chinstrap penguin stands at attention on the rocky shore of the Antarctic Peninsula.

'They would, in fact, feel more connected to home than the early Antarctic explorers, ' they write in their article.

During this two-month period, the males eat nothing and are at the mercy of the Antarctic elements.

Antarctic krill, such as this specimen in the Weddell Sea with a stomach full of yellow algae, are a critical link in the ocean food web.

THE HOST: Lan Grant from the British Antarctic survey.

The separating and spreading plates on the Atlantic side represent an opening, so the Antarctic plate moves in that direction.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, gave Japan an ultimatum yesterday to end its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters.

Zones A, B, Y, and Z exist outside of this system; they cover the Antarctic and Arctic regions.

Scientists find surprising evidence of bacterial life beneath the Antarctic ice near Blood Falls, seen here.

The climate south of the Antarctic Circle, in contrast, is unfavourable to human survival.

The stunning, austere beauty of the Antarctic icescape is our constant companion.

The Japanese plan to kill about a thousand whales during the Antarctic summer.

Atmospheric Ice Crystals over the Antarctic Plateau in Winter.

Photo 7 : Swarms of krill, a cornerstone of the entire Antarctic food chain, feed on phytoplankton that grows on the underside of sea ice.

As global warming, the deterioration of the environment, in the Antarctic, lovely emperor penguin to continue life, and migration of pains.

In Antarctica, warm conditions appear in some inland areas and especially over the Antarctic Peninsula.

And in the harsh climate of the Antarctic, a huge dome encloses a research and living station for American scientists.

They went on an expedition to the Antarctic.

A group of chin strap penguins lines the edge of an iceberg adrift in Antarctic waters.

Therefore, the antifreeze protein to the Antarctic cod an amazing capacity of low temperature.

By the century's end, they predict snowfall retreating to the Antarctic continent's edge.

Antarctic Clouds and Radiation within the NCAR Climate Models.

Many climate change sceptics have used the Antarctic cooling as evidence against global warming.

Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt following protests from a campaign group.

When other animals head north in March to avoid the Antarctic winter, emperor penguins head south.

But today, a permanent spring-like house stands on the South Pole, called amundsen - Scott Antarctic stand.

This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.

This is a healthy, robust species that sits near the top of the complex Antarctic food web.

A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole.

It's very slippy when go outside the door in the winter in the Antarctic.

And whereas the Arctic has been exploited economically for centuries, trade has never really touched Antarctic.

The impact of climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula is evident in new satellite data, US researchers say.

Yet every Antarctic summer, Japan sends a whaling fleet south to catch hundreds of whales for "research" .

Except in Antarctic temps, there's rarely a reason to wear a T-shirt, hoodie and blazer all at once, like Tom prefers.

The Antarctic Circle is the boundary of this region of lightness .

Geographic and political factors made the strategic situation in the Arctic "much more complicated" than the Antarctic.

It nests around the Antarctic Circle.

A nearly complete absence of craters indicates that Europa's surface ice resembles Earth's Antarctic ice cap.

The two warmest anomalies on the planet this past summer were Eastern Europe and the Antarctic Peninsula.

and discusses New Zealand's core interests in the Antarctic continent that help to shape its Antarctic policy.

Both the Greenland and the Antarctic caps have been melting at an accelerating rate.

the Antarctic sea ice is still at its greatest extent.

The team hopes to be the first to sample a sub-glacial Antarctic lake.

In the Antarctic, I'm going to carry it under my clothes. . .

Arctic sea ice, Greenland's ice sheet, and glaciers in the Alps and the Antarctic Peninsula are all melting faster.

If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters .

IN 2008 part of the Wilkins ice shelf on the edge of the Antarctic peninsular suddenly disintegrated.

The transfer defuses a tense situation on the Antarctic seas , but activists say they will continue to harass the Japanese fleet .

Unlike true Antarctic penguins, the gentoo prefers more temperate climes.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) is a newly discovered ocean phenomenon.

At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.

Antarctic krill contains high quality protein, amino acid content than beef and shrimp.

If the asteroid runs into the satellite, the scientists think it may run into Antarctica or the Antarctic Ocean.

Every northern winter, Japan faces barbs for sending a whaling fleet into Antarctic waters.

that forms the northern extremity of the Antarctic continent.

Think of the discomforts endured by explorers in the Antarctic.

Many groups of scientists quickly began monitoring the Antarctic ozone layer.

They also agreed to cooperate in seismology , geology and Antarctic sciences.

Meanwhile, the tip of S America is held back by its attachments to the Antarctic and Pacific plates.

Ice shelves make up nearly half of the Antarctic coastline and have level or gently undulating surfaces.

Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen took the photos from a research ship 660 miles north of the Antarctic.

New Zealand has condemned Japan's decision to resume whaling in Antarctic waters later this year.

The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.

Satellite images show an ice bridge that held a huge Antarctic ice shelf in place recently broke apart.

A crate of Scotch whisky trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a century has finally been opened.

Temperatures were extremely warm in western Russia and the Antarctic Peninsula.

All the other animals, even other penguins, leave months before the Antarctic winter sets in.

Antarctic octopuses eat a wide variety of animals, from clams to fish.

It wants legally binding rules, backed by penalties, for Antarctic cruise ships.

The Antarctic continent has mountain ranges similar in size to the European Alps.

But the discovery that it and at least 234 other species inhabit both Arctic and Antarctic waters is big news to biologists.

The Ross Sea is a relatively shallow bay in the Antarctic coastline and due south from New Zealand.

The Antarctic continent is located in the South Pole of our Planet.

The second Antarctic expedition, IceBridge, is in its final weeks.

Bacteria really can live just about anywhere on else from hot volcanic vents to Antarctic ice.

If it and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, sea levels will rise five to 10 meters, displacing half a billion inhabitants.

Emperor penguin adults and chicks leave their colonies in the late Antarctic summer.

Hai Rong is produced in the Antarctic, the main raw material comes from Chile.

the Arctic has much plant life , but the Antarctic is an empty desert.

Japan 's decision Friday will save 50 humpback whales that Japanese whalers had planned to catch and kill in Antarctic waters.

An emperor penguin from the Antarctic ended up stranded on a beach in New Zealand.

A major Antarctic glacier has passed its tipping point, according to a new modelling study.

The frozen seas of the Arctic and Antarctic each had their surveys, too.

While in Australia, she sampled bones from 18 different dinosaurs that lived in the Antarctic circle during the Early Cretaceous Period.

The scientist has spent six months in the solitudes of the Antarctic.

The hut and three others nearby were the first human dwellings on the continent, according to Antarctic Heritage Trust's Morgan.

But Notz is less optimistic about Antarctic sea ice, its undersides heated by eddying Southern Ocean currents.