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Winter and darkness is approaching the only continent on Earth not to have a single case of Covid-19. Those staying on its frozen wastes are watching as the virus crisis unfolds, waiting until it's their time to return home. 
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A huge iceberg weighing upwards of 350 billion tons has broken off the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
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A Russian scientist is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he was reading at their isolated Antarctic outpost.
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Going on a mix of climate modeling, satellite observation, and on-site measurement, new research has indicated that East Antarctica’s ice sheet may be more vulnerable to melting “than e…
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Researchers say the ice is melting more quickly than they've ever seen. They think it's because warm water is circulating under the ice shelf, and that the melting process appears to be irreversible.
Dulce Lopez's insight:
An interesting article about melting ice in Antarctica. Warm water from beneath ice shelf are causing some of the melting but scientists are unsure as from where this warm water is coming from. It will definitely be interesting to see how officials manage this issue.
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10) Natural communities are enormously complex, often governed by networks of positive and negative indirect interactions. (complexity, indirect effects) 9) Multiple factors and processes interact to influence community assembly, including competition, predation, facilitation, recruitment, disturbance, physiological stress, patch dynamics, and succession. (multifactoralism) 8) The relative importance of various factors is highly context dependent. (AKA it depends…) 7) Recruitment limitation is important! (supply side ecology) 6) Disturbance can prevent competitive exclusion, maintaining diversity. 5) You don’t need R, Github or even a computer to do transformative science. 4) Pattern quantification and experimentation go hand in hand. One without the other doesn’t get you nearly as far as combining them does. 3) Natural history (local knowledge of a system and its inhabitants) is crucial to interpreting empirical results. 2) Experimental ecology is a [...]
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Diving in Antarctica back in the day was a challenge...I lucked out and never got frostbite, but it was...umm...cold.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â€" An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic was told to halt its journey home on Friday after concerns that a Chinese vessel involved in the dramatic rescue...
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This story just wont seem to die.
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Who said a polar research base had to be ugly? Gradually, designers are rethinking how to build for the world’s harshest environment.
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Emergency responders have launched an urgent rescue mission to Antartic waters to evacuate a cruise ship passenger who is suspected to have suffered a stroke
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The new marine protected area, expected to come into force in December 2017, will set out to protect some 600,000 square miles of the Ross Sea around Antarctica — an area more than the size of France…
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The new "biggest MPA" in the world is...Antarctica.
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This movie was shot during our 20 days trip to Antarctica in December 2014 to January 2015. We started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in…
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China and Russia have blocked an agreement to protect key areas of the Antarctic Ocean. Conservationists blame commercial interests and political tensions. Via pdeppisch
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Thanks team democracy!
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A group scientists and tourists try to make the best of it while stuck on a research vessel trapped in ice in the Antarctic.
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See the update (further down the page).
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SYDNEY (AP) â€" A Chinese icebreaker that was en route to rescue a ship trapped in Antarctic ice was forced to turn back on Saturday after being unable to push its way through the heavy sea ice.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Having been stuck in the ice/forced to change our course several times down there I can sympathize with the logistical challenges associated with navigating these waters. I am not particularly sure what the scientific value of this particular cruise was (other than adding more observational data points into our collective Antarctic organism distribution/abundance repository). But I can see the value for those wishing to drum up support for and interest in our maritime exploratory history, and having paying "tourists" on board is certainly a creative way to fund your research in this era of less and less funding for research.
All things said, this amounts to another salute to those first explorers who braved the elements and the unknown land- and seascapes centuries before global real-time communication, nuclear powered ice breakers, etc. Here is hoping for the safe continuation of their voyage and a great story to share with their families and friends when they return.
I wonder who is footing the bill for the ice breakers?
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