Posts Tagged ‘antarctic’

‘Rogue Wave’ Kills American Tourist Aboard Antarctic Cruise Ship

A 62-year-old American woman was pronounced dead after a “rouge wave” slammed into a Viking cruise ship en route to Antarctica. Source

Shackleton’s Famous Antarctic Shipwreck Endurance Is Finally Discovered

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost Endurance shipwreck has been discovered at the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. And while this isn’t a discovery from the ancient world, it packs such a historically significant punch that we couldn’t NOT share this story with you. In 1914-17, Sir Ernest Shackleton launched the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which planned to […]

This Fruitcake Is Still Good After a Century in the Antarctic!

A traditional English fruitcake is not what researchers in the Antarctic expected to find inside an explorer’s camp. Having survived over a century of snow, ice and wind on what is regarded as one of the driest places on Earth, a team of modern explorers from New Zealand-based  Antarctic Heritage Trust  recently unearthed the fruitcake in […]

Antarctic supervolcano to rival Yellowstone melting ice sheet from within – NASA

A geothermal heat source called a mantle plume – a hot stream of subterranean molten rock that rises through the Earth’s crust – may explain the breathing effect visible on Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land and elsewhere along the massive ice sheet. While the mantle plume is not a new discovery, the recent research indicates it […]

30,000 sq mile Antarctic ice hole & Arctic ice gain anomalies

     The media sounds alarm bells that there is a 30,000 square mile ice hole that opened in the Antarctic sea ice, as if its because of global warming, but they forget to add that this occurred in the 1970’s as well. Arctic sea ice continues to grow at record pace and Greenland with massive […]

Massive ‘UFO’ Lurks Beneath Antarctic Ice, Scientists Claim

Scientists believe they have found evidence of a massive UFO lurking beneath the Antarctic ice in an area called Wilkes Land. The mysterious anomaly lurks beneath a frozen area that spans 151 miles across and has a depth of over 2,700 feet. Nypost.com reports: Some researchers believe it is the remains of a truly massive […]

Giant Iceberg Splits from Antarctic

One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from Antarctica. The giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000 sq km; that’s about a quarter the size of Wales. An US satellite observed the berg on Wednesday while passing over a region known as the Larsen C Ice Shelf. […]

10000 Year Old Antarctic Ice Shelf Will Disintegrate in Just Years

One of Antarctica’s ice shelves, or rather its remaining section, is showing unprecedented levels of meltdown and will inescapably collapse in just a few years, further impacting the ocean levels on the planet, a new NASA study has warned. Research lead by scientists of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, probed the ice […]

Scientists confirm that slight global warming is GREENING the Antarctic Peninsula with new life, dramatically boosting ecology

(Natural News) Climate alarmists such as Al Gore have long claimed that climate change is man-made and likely will destroy the world if we don’t curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Since these statements are based on calculations from computer models, there is no actual evidence that CO2 will harm all life on Earth in any […]

State Of Emergency Extended In France To Cover Euro 2016 Games

The French parliament has extended the state of emergency for another two months to the end of July in order to cover the Euro 2016 football tournament and the Tour de France cycling race. It is the third time the state of emergency has been extended since the November 13 attacks on Paris. Press TV […]

Turkish govt shuts down Zaman newspaper following seizure

Zaman was taken over by Ankara in early March. Following the seizure, the government immediately appointed new trustees for Feza Media Group, which owned the paper. Police also raided the newspaper’s offices to enforce a Turkish court order stating that the media outlet must be brought under government authority. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Abdulhamit Bilici, was fired […]

China Plans To ‘Rove’ On Mars By 2020

The Martian with Matt Damon China is working on a mission to land a rover on Mars by 2020 aiming to become a global aerospace power by 2030. China’s National Space Administration envisages a joint China-US cooperation on a Mars rescue mission, as depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster “The Martian,” where the agency saved both NASA […]

Large sinkhole swallows pickup truck in Gilbert, Arizona

     Traveling in the Town of Gilbert this morning? You might want to avoid Greenfield Road. A sinkhole has closed Greenfield Road between Germann and Queen Creek Roads. One vehicle was swallowed by the sinkhole, but no other injuries or property damage has been reported. It is unclear why the road collapsed. This is the […]

‘Better ways for rite of passage’: UN chief calls for end to female genital mutilation

Speaking on Monday at the United Nations headquarters in New York at a meeting to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM), the UN chief said the practice should be replaced. READ MORE: 1 female genital mutilation case reported every 96 minutes in England “Better ways to mark the rite […]

German far-right leader: Police should ‘have right to’ shoot refugees illegally crossing border

     The leader of ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD) – a German Eurosceptic, anti-migration party – has said that police should have the right to use firearms, if necessary, to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the German border illegally. Frauke Petry, one of AfD’s leaders, has called for a high fence to be built on […]

Lavrov: Russia has had enough: No more ‘business as usual’ with U.S.

     Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a remarkable press conference that was entirely ignored by western media: For Russia, there will be no more ‘business as usual’ with the European Union or the United States. A new stage of history is dawning which can develop only on the basis of equal rights and all […]

Despite the dangers, nuclear war still on the drawing board of the Pentagon

     More than 2000 nuclear explosions have occurred since 1945 as part of nuclear weapons’ testing. Officially only two nuclear bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9, August 1945) have been used in an act of war. The media consensus is that a nuclear holocaust is an impossibility. Should we be concerned? Publicly available military […]

Arsenic, other contaminants found in Brazilian mine river: Vale

The president of the mining company Vale do Rio Doce, Murilo Ferreira, speaks during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 27, 2015, Brazil Brazilian mining giant Vale said Friday that small amounts of arsenic and other potential poisons have been detected in a river polluted by an iron ore mine accident, […]

Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween

An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53, will safely pass more than 26 times the distance of Earth to the moon on May 14. To put it another way, at its closest point, the asteroid will get no closer than 6.3 million miles away … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-dead-comet-skull-hurtle-earth.html

Coast guards of Arctic nations seek deeper cooperation

NASA’s TIMED mission, short for Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics, has confirmed a surprisingly fast carbon dioxide increase in Earth’s upper atmosphere, raising questions about how different layers … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-coast-arctic-nations-deeper-cooperation.html

Analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, crude oil

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory this week released a pair of studies on the efficiency of shale oil production excavation. The reports show that shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to traditional crude oil production. The research, which was conducted in collaboration with Stanford University and the University […]

Establishment of systems metabolic engineering strategies to develop microbial strains

In our everyday life, we use gasoline, diesel, plastics, rubbers, and numerous chemicals that are derived from fossil oil through petrochemical refinery processes. Fossil resources are limited and not sustainable. Our world … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-metabolic-strategies-microbial-strains.html

Southeast Aust braced for Antarctic blast

AAP Spring will temporarily go into hibernation this weekend as an Antarctic blast drops temperatures across southeastern Australia, bringing wild wind, showers and mountain snow flurries. Weather Channel meteorologist Tom Saunders said Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne would be gearing up for chilly conditions this weekend. Icy southerly winds will dump rain over South Australia, Victoria, […]

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