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New paper using RADARSAT data: Antarctic ice shelves slowed down - "...have not been changed in a significant way in the past 12 years"41 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 weeks ago: A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT … more →

Tags: Antarctic, Antarctica, Bindschadler Ice Stream, filchner-ronne ice shelf, ice stream, MacAyeal Ice Stream, Radarsat, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Time Lapse: Setting Up a Field Camp in Antarctica

Stephanie Prince wrote 4 months ago: This time lapse captures about an hour of work myself and 8 others did in setting up a proper camp i … more →

Tags: Video, Antarctica, antarctica 2, field camps, Time Lapse

Travel Archives - Antarctica #1

keririndo wrote 4 months ago: Since many of my epic travels were done before the word ‘blogging’ became part of our mo … more →

Tags: Life in Antarctica, thumb drives, Frozen Continent, Antarctica, Skidoo, snowmobile, Hotmail, Travel, Traveling

ice crystal passage by puma

dreamiliscious wrote 4 months ago: I had an anime dream last week.  Of course it starred my CAT!  Well a version of my cat.  My cat is … more →

Tags: Dreams, Narnia, snow, ice, Glacier, puma, anime, ice crystals, cat

Antarctica Travel Blog Nov 27 thru Nov 30: Ross Ice Shelf and Kapitan Klebnikov Final Days in the Ross Sea1 comment

Laurie Allread wrote 6 months ago: Antarctica Icebergs November 27, 2011 The Ross Ice Shelf came into view about noon. Size of France a … more →

Tags: Adventure Life, antarctica cruises, Cruises, Laurie Allread Epic Antarctica Travel Journal, Natural Environment, small ship cruises, Travel Journal, adventure life, Adventure travel

Scott's last expedition. One hundred years ago to-day.2 comments

isobelpwilliams wrote 6 months ago: Scott’s party of sixteen were progressing over the Ross ice barrier. It was snowing a little, … more →

Tags: Day, Hooper, Dogs

Pegasus1 comment

mynameiskira wrote 7 months ago: I spent my day off volunteering with fleet ops which meant I got to head out to the unfinished white … more →

Tags: Antarctica, McMurdo, True Story, pegasus, ice runway, Fleet Ops, C-130

Observation Hill Climb.

mynameiskira wrote 7 months ago: On my day off I headed back down to the ob tube with some friends. I am borrowing a friend’s c … more →

Tags: Antarctica, McMurdo, Mt. Erebus, observation hill, Ob Hill, Scott base, ob tube, Travel

Observation Tube: 40 feet of awesomeness under the sea ice on the ross ice shelf4 comments

mynameiskira wrote 7 months ago: So tonight I became the third person on the continent to visit this season’s observation tube. … more →

Tags: Antarctica, McMurdo, True Story, Observation Tube, orca whale, sea ice, underwater, Antarctic Ocean

The End of Winfly: Making Earrings and Runways4 comments

weirdbirds wrote 8 months ago: KEVIN Sitting less than two miles away from McMurdo are a very unique and surreal group of features … more →

Tags: Antarctica, McMurdo, pressure ridges, Runway, craft fair, hugs

Living on thin ice, in Antarctica

Alan Gregory wrote 1 year ago: OK, there’s not a lot of reading here, which is good news for tee vee viewers and those folks … more →

Tags: Antarctica, sea ice, ice, sea-level rise, Penguins, ross sea, South Pole

Japan quake shifts Antarctic glacier, New Scientist reports

Hornfar wrote 1 year ago: 15:45 15 March 2011 by Anil Ananthaswamy Original article here The major earthquake that hit Japan o … more →

Tags: polar-news, 1, Earthquake, Antarctica, University of California, japan earthquake, jake walter, Santa Cruz, Whillans ice stream

Coffin, meet nail. - more on Steig's reconstruction issues62 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: by Ryan O’Donnell via Climate Audit For those who are not mathematically inclined and did not … more →

Tags: Antarctic, Antarctica, West Antarctica

Scott of the Antarctic: Hero or Failure? : Discovery News

dmacc502 wrote 1 year ago: Image via Wikipedia Scott of the Antarctic: Hero or Failure? : Discovery News.Antarctica  – A … more →

Tags: Environment, History, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Scott of the Antarctic (film)

What A 100 Year-Old Race To The South Pole Teaches Us About Design

ZAPP URBANISM wrote 1 year ago: Adam Erlebacher Design informs most of what we come in contact with whether it is architecture, mobi … more →

Tags: ZU 24, South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Adam Erlebacher, Antarctica

Hello world!

joschwartz101 wrote 1 year ago: To explain the Heading Photo: That is me – clinging to the sign at McMurdo Station, located on … more →

Tags: Antarctica, McMurdo Station, united states, New Zealand, National Science Foundation, Raytheon Polar Services Company, royal new zealand air force

Videobreak: Rob Dunbar - The threat of ocean acidification 5 comments

thingsbreak wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: Videobreak, Climate change, Paleoclimate, ocean acidification, proxies, orbital forcing, TeD, El Nino, Milankovitch Cycles

Big Cheer for CryoSat-2

calderup wrote 1 year ago: Pick of the pics and Climate Change: News and Comments Let’s Hear a Big Cheer for CryoSat-2 An … more →

Tags: 3a) News and Comments, 5 Pick of the pics, Global Warming, Antarctica, esa, nigel calder, Science, Cryosat 2, UCL

Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier

Hornfar wrote 1 year ago: This undated photo released on February 26, 2010 from the Australian Antarctic Division shows the Me … more →

Tags: polar-news, Science, Environment & Science, Antarctic, Global Warming, melting, iceberg, Mertz Glacier, Australian Antarctic Division


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