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Russian Drill Team Close to Penetrating Lake Vostok
31.01.2012
A Russian drilling team is close to penetrating subglacial Lake Vostok, located more than three and a half kilometers deep in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, not far from the Russian Vostok Station at the Magnetic South Pole. After two decades of drilling through several kilometres of ice, the team is…
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Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found off Antarctic Coast
31.01.2012
According to a study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology that was conducted by Jorge Hernández, Björn Olsen and their colleagues from Uppsala University in Sweden, bacteria that are resistant to nearly all kinds of antibiotics are present in seawater off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The fact that…
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Rare Albino-Like Penguin Spotted in Antarctica
17.01.2012
Tourists on a National Geographic Journey to Antarctica cruise discovered a rare chinstrap penguin with white and light-brown colouration while passing through the South Shetland Islands.
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Antarctic Marine Environment Found to Have High Levels of Mercury
09.01.2012
Seabirds in the Southern Ocean have mercury levels four times that of seabirds found elsewhere on the planet, according to research conducted by a team of French and Australian oceanographers led by Daniel Cossa from the French Institute of Recherche for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER).
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Diminishing Sea Ice Having Impact on Seal Pup Populations
06.01.2012
Thinning sea ice cover in the North Atlantic is diminishing harp seal breeding grounds and having an impact on the survival rate of seal pups, according to a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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Unique New Species Discovered around Antarctic Hydrothermal Vents
04.01.2012
Several species new to science have been discovered inhabiting areas around deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor along the East Scotia Ridge between the southern tip of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. While hydrothermal vents have been studied in other parts of the world’s oceans, this is the…
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Floating Arctic University in the Making
04.01.2012
The Northern Russian port city of Arkhangelsk will host a “floating university” for Arctic research and staff training. A joint project between the Arctic Federal University (NArFU) and the Arctic Hydro-Meteorological Service, lectures and courses will be held aboard the Professor Molchanov research vessel as it conducts research in Arctic…
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Investigating Adaptation of Antarctic Worms to Warming Oceans
23.12.2011
University of Delaware researchers are currently studying how tiny worms living in the freezing sea off the coast of Antarctica have adapted to such an extreme environment as well as how they might survive as the ocean worms. Adam Marsh and colleagues from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth,…
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New Herbivorous Dinosaur Remains Discovered in Antarctica
22.12.2011
With their recent discovery of advanced titanosaur remains in Antarctica, Dr. Ignacio Alejandro Cerda and his colleagues from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, Argentina have been able to show that this particular variety of dinosaurs were able to achieve global distribution by at…
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Inferring Past Krill Populations from Antarctic Fur Seal Hairs
05.12.2011
A team of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Utah State University, the Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Brooklyn College have inferred changes in krill numbers by analyzing the shift in a stable Nitrogen-15 isotope (δ15N) marker found in Antarctic…
