After spending more than two decades drilling in the coldest place on Earth, Russian scientists have finally broken ice on Lake Vostok, a freshwater lake believed to contain water sealed frozen for more than 15 million years. (more)
Nothing is more important than our health. We’re blessed in this country to have the greatest health care system in the world. Through emergency rooms, the insured and uninsured alike have access to that health care system, without regard to their ability to pay. But imagine being in the middle of nowhere, literally, and being in need of urgent medical attention. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does we spring into action and go to extraordinary lengths to preserve human life. (more)
PARIS (AFP) – – Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists. (more)
A BIZARRE nudist subculture has taken shape on the inhospitable, snowswept plains of Antarctica. (more)
TOKYO (AP) — A quarter-century ban on commercial whaling — one of the world’s most successful preservation agreements — could crumble altogether if conservationists cannot persuade Japan to cut back on the tradition it champions. (more)
A stricken British adventurer was left to die at the top of Mount Everest after fellow climbers were forced to abandon him before they too became trapped. (more)
Scientists trying to catch a glimpse of what the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica looks like got the surprise of a lifetime when they found a shrimp-like amphipod and a jellyfish thriving in the subfreezing dark water. (more)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A small part of Antarctica turned green Saturday as the ice-covered continent’s biggest wind farm, which can generate enough electricity to power 500 homes, was formally switched on. (more)
SYDNEY (AP) — A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captain and crew of the whaling vessel, one of the group’s leaders said Saturday. (more)
SYDNEY (AP) — Conservationists monitoring Japanese whalers in the Antarctic said Friday that they remained committed to protecting whales despite a dangerous clash this week that resulted in one of their boats sinking. (more)
SYDNEY (AP) — A clash off Antarctica between a Japanese whaler and a boat from a protest group partly bankrolled by former TV game show host Bob Barker left the anti-whaling vessel badly damaged and each side accusing the other of life-threatening behavior. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television game show host Bob Barker knew anti-whaling work could be dangerous even before his $5 million donation to a conservation group, but he was shocked to hear about Wednesday’s violent crash between a Japanese whaling ship and one of the group’s speedboats. (more)
SYDNEY (AP) — A conservation group says one of its boats is sinking after a collision with a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctica. (more)
