The redesigned flag aims to focus attention on the microplastic crisis affecting the remote region
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists of South Africa provides researchers a unique opportunity to visit Antarctica aboard the SA Agulhas II
Scientists from a number of institutions collaborated to collect data on 17 marine birds and mammals such as penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales in the ocean around Antarctica
Half the world’s orcas are doomed, because a coal byproduct has been leaking into the oceans for more than a century
Totten Glacier’s underbelly is being eroded by warm sea water flowing hundreds of kilometres inland after passing through underwater "gateways".
And it could mean that the Antarctic ice shelf is becoming unstable
"Ice is shrinking at both ends of the planet, a development alarming scientists."
Critical ocean flows are changing, cutting off an ecosystem that regulates global temperatures and feeds fish.
An increase in the level of ice around the frozen continent is making it difficult to get fuel and supplies to research stations.
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A legacy programme captures South Africa’s active involvement in scientific research in Antarctica and the Prince Edward Islands since World War II.
A South African astrophysicist is part of a team seeking to drag ancient cosmic secrets out of the polar skies.
In a pioneering move, a wave glider has been sent out to sea from Cape Town to measure pollution around Antarctica.
The science is in, and living in Cape Town and Durban will be impossible thanks to melting glaciers and an extra 4m rise in sea level.
Off the coast of South Africa, ocean robots are sending back information to help us to understand how the Âclimate is changing.
Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Russia’s scientists believe they have discovered new life forms sealed off for millions of years in a subglacial lake deep under the Antarctic ice.
British explorer Ranulph Fiennes has pulled out of an expedition to cross Antarctica during the region’s winter after developing frostbite.
British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes calls it one of the last remaining polar challenges: crossing Antarctica during the region’s winter.
An ambitious British plan to search for minute forms of life in an ancient lake beneath Antarctica’s ice has been suspended due to technical problems.
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Scientists exploring underwater vents near Antarctica have found a world of creatures thriving in temperatures of 400C°.
The search for a Norwegian sailboat that has been missing in the Antarctic for a week following a massive storm was called off on Tuesday.
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/ 28 February 2011
Two Norwegian adventurers on Monday said they held slim hopes of finding the three other members of their party alive, after their yacht went missing.
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/ 13 December 2010
Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.
A big bone of contention in many countries, Google’s Street View mapping service on Thursday goes live in Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica.
Figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre indicate six or seven- year low over past three decades.
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/ 5 December 2008
More than 80 passengers and some crew members were evacuated on Friday from a luxury Antarctic cruise ship that ran aground a day earlier.
One of the last shipments to a United States research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year’s supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported on Monday.
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/ 1 February 2008
A deep freeze holding 90% of the world’s ice, Antarctica is one of the biggest puzzles in debate on global warming with risks that any thaw could raise sea levels faster than United Nations projections. Even if a fraction melted, Antarctica could damage nations from Bangladesh to Tuvalu in the Pacific and cities from Shanghai to New York.
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/ 28 January 2008
Aliens are landing in Antarctica: seeds, spores, mites, lichens and mosses alien to the continent have been brought unwittingly by scientists and tourists, and could disrupt life in the icy wilderness. Antarctica is best known for penguins as well as seals and whales, but scientists are finding a host of other tiny organisms, from springtails — closely related to insects — to mosses.
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/ 30 January 2007
As top scientists meet in the comfort of Paris to hammer out a major report on climate change, a handful of their confreres hunker down on a frozen plateau in the middle of Antarctica, painstakingly gathering warning signs of global warming. A rotating commune of French and Italian researchers is tracing the history of the planet’s climate.
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/ 10 December 2006
It seems best to play it cool if you want to see a penguin. Those who come to McMurdo Station, the biggest United States science base in Antarctica, often dream of seeing the regal Emperor penguins or the smaller Adelies, but environmental policies require humans let the birds make the first move, and keep their distance in any case.