Full Coverage: Antarctica

25.01.2008 The first season is complete on a major effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
From: Science Daily

23.10.2007 This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is smaller than recent years' due to mild winter temperatures, and is not a sign of ozone recovery, reports the UN. Scientists expect a bigger hole during spring.

21.10.2007 Inuit activists argue that the right to be cold is part of their basic human rights, which is being diminished by global warming caused by pollution emanating from other parts of the world.
This is just one of many questions that will be addressed at a series of climate change talks at the British Library.

20.10.2006 from Science Daily:
The first direct evidence linking human activity to the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.

28.08.2006 from RealClimate:
Is the Antarctic ice sheet getting bigger or smaller? Is it warming or cooling? These are critical questions to which science is beginning to provide answers.

26.07.2006 from Taipei Times:
The Antarctic Treaty could, it seems, be meaningless. "The day they decide, [the energy companies] will go in," says Iranian oil expert at summit on polar research. Meanwhile in Australia, maverick politicians are champing at the bit for Antarctic gold, iron ore, coal and fish.

18.07.2006 The Federal Court of Australia has granted Humane Society International permission to proceed with a lawsuit against the Japanese company that hunts whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary adjacent to Antarctica.

03.03.2006 Estimates of sea-level rise as a result of increasing global temperatures could be too low, say scientists.

12.01.2006 A 10-day expedition to the Antarctic by Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Howard Dalton designed to investigate the effects of climate change is being followed online via a live blog.

06.12.2005 Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are the highest they have been in 650,000 years, according to the first in-depth analysis of tiny air bubbles trapped in an ice core from East Antarctica.

25.10.2005 It’s just a film about penguins, reports Daniel Nelson, but it's fun, it's amazing, and as well as being a box office hit it could provoke debate about global warming, conservation and a host of other issues.

09.10.2003 Top U.S. scientific agencies announced yesterday that the size of the ozone hole over Antarctica grew sharply this year, but attributed the change to weather conditions. Meanwhile, the ozone layer over the U.S. has decreased by six percent.

24.10.2002 Australia's government is seeking to have the deep-sea Patagonian toothfish protected under international law to protect it from illegal fishing in Antarctic waters.

01.10.2002 Industrial pollutants, including pesticides and insecticides, have contaminated Arctic wildlife and some indigenous peoples, particularly Inuit, according to a report released today by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

17.09.2002 The Earth's stratospheric ozone layer will remain vulnerable to the effects of chemical emissions for a decade even if countries comply with international agreements to protect it, warned a scientific report released to mark International Ozone Day.

17.09.2002 The Earth's stratospheric ozone layer will remain vulnerable to the effects of chemical emissions for a decade even if countries comply with international agreements to protect it, warned a scientific report released to mark International Ozone Day yesterday.

13.05.2002 Iceberg C-18 is the latest in a series of bergs to break away from the warming Antarctic ice mass, causing scientists to be concerned about the effect on local ecosystems.

10.05.2002 The separation of a new iceberg from the Antarctic mass recently is the latest in a series of ice shifts which are blocking sunlight needed for the growth of microscopic plants which underpin the local food web, according to scientists.

20.03.2002 The accelerating break up of Antarctic ice shelves has reached a new peak, with the dramatic loss of two huge pieces on separate sides of the continent, according to British and United States satellite and ship-based data.

31.01.2002 Winter lake temperatures on one of Antarctica's ice-bound islands have been Winter lake temperatures on one of Antarctica's ice-bound islands have been warming significantly during the last two decades, according to a study released yesterday by scientists considering the impact of climate change on the polar continent.