Antarctic Sea Ice Cover at Record Low
technologynetworks, 2023-02-13
There is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of satellite observation: in early February 2023, only 2.20 million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice. Researchers from …
Antarctic Researchers Report an Extraordinary Marine Heatwave That Could Threaten Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
Inside Climate News, 2023-02-12
He said ocean temperature readings going back to April 2022 speak to the persistence of the warm conditions off the Antarctic Peninsula. The cruise covered an area more than 600 miles long and criss-crossed waters above the 125-mile wide continental shelf …
Spate of passenger deaths aboard Antarctic cruises prompts Coast Guard to investigate as the ‘treacherous’ destination rises in popularity and access
Business Insider, 2023-02-10
The US Coast Guard is investigating a series of deaths and injuries of American citizens on Antarctic cruises over a two-week period last year, the agency announced earlier this month. Four people died and several more were injured in four separate …
Antarctic fieldwork may finally reckon with sexual harassment claims
Popular Science, 2023-02-10
In September 2022, two months before Ph.D. student Megan Kerr was scheduled to board a military plane bound for the Antarctic ice sheet, she found herself in a conference room on Oregon State University’s campus, waiting to ask a question that had been …
U.S. sends help to free ships stuck in Antarctic ice
Duluth News Tribune, 2023-02-13
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard is dispatching a special ice-breaking cutter to help free two ships lodged in the Antarctic, officials announced Saturday. The Polar Star, the Coast Guard’s only …
Can I get my deposit back for my Antarctic tour? They’ve had my money almost two years
MSN, 2023-02-12
Steven Meisel paid Aurora Expeditions a $5,000 deposit for an Antarctic tour back in 2019. Then the pandemic happened. Can he get his refund now? In 2019, I booked a trip to Antarctica through Aurora Expeditions, an Australian company. I reserved the …
Passenger deaths on Antarctic cruises prompt Coast Guard investigation
The Washington Post, 2023-02-09
Four U.S. citizens died and more were injured during Antarctic cruises late last year, leading the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate four incidents that occurred in a span of less than three weeks. According to a news release, Netherlands-based U.S. Coast …
Polar sound scape exhibition reveals rarely heard Arctic and Antarctic noises
Africanews on MSN.com, 2023-02-12
What do ‘singing’ ice, a narwhal making ‘sheep’ noises and a seal that sounds like it’s in space have in common? These bizarre tones are part of a new project offering the chance to journey to some of the most remote places on earth – through sound.
Warhammer 40K Goes Way South as Two British Navy Officers Play Game on Antarctic Ice
Comicbook.com, 2023-02-12
Lieutenant Jonny Talbot and Lieutenant Max Friswell recently were recently spotlighted on the British navy’s webpage for playing a game of Warhammer 40K in the ice outside of Rothera Research Station, a British Antarctic Survey base located on the …
Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic
Phys.org, 2023-02-10
There is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of satellite observation: in early February 2023, only 2.20 million square kilometers of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice. Researchers from …