Antarctica

Chile says burned Chinese ship sinks in Antarctic

23 Apr 2013

A Chinese factory fishing ship that burned last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board, Chile’s navy said on Monday.

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Antarctic ice melting accelerating, most rapidly in past 50 years, study finds

16 Apr 2013

Summer ice in the Antarctic is melting 10 times quicker than it was 600 years ago, with the most rapid melt occurring in the last 50 years, a joint Australian-British study showed yesterday. A...

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China to build two more Antarctic bases

29 Mar 2013

China is to build two extra research stations in Antarctica, where it currently has three facilities, the State Oceanic Administration confirmed on Friday.

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Short Science, March 10, 2013

10 Mar 2013

Russian scientists believe they have found a new type of bacteria in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. The samples obtained from the underground lake in May last year contained a bacteria...

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British-Australian team successfully recreates Shackleton's journey

12 Feb 2013

Expedition leader Tim Jarvis and Barry Gray reached the old whaling station at Stromness early on Sunday after a 900-metre climb over the mountainous interior of South Georgia.

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Briefs, January 27, 2013

27 Jan 2013

Unidentified attackers blew up Yemen's main oil pipeline, forcing the country to shut down one of its most lucrative sources of income. A government source said production was halted after a...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Search for missing plane in Antarctica

A search was under way in Antarctica yesterday for a plane carrying three Canadian crew that went missing in bad weather on a flight from the South Pole, New Zealand rescue authorities said.

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Change of wind brings ice to Antarctica, as Arctic melts

The mystery of the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica, at the same time global warming is melting swaths of Arctic sea ice, has been solved using data from American military satellites.

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China and Russia help block Antarctic sanctuary plan

Conservation groups expressed outrage after resistance led by China and Russia stymied efforts to carve out new marine sanctuaries and protect thousands of species across Antarctica.

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ENVIRONMENT

Australian minister Tony Burke will pitch Antarctic ice plan in Beijing

Australia wants to help the Chinese government turn its water into cash, and join forces with Beijing to find million-year-old ice in Antarctica, says Tony Burke, the country's environment...

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David de Rothschild

SPARKING CURIOSITY I was fortunate that I was able to grow up surrounded by nature; I particularly loved horse jumping on our farm. Growing up as a Rothschild didn't really push me towards...

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Where hull freezes over

It was eight in the morning and the sky had cleared to suggest good weather. At least that's what it looked like from my cabin window. So I went outside onto the observation deck.

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