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Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica

By | Published: March 9, 2010
Two massive icebergs drifted along the coast of East Antarctica in early March 2010. In mid-February 2010, the Rhode Island-sized Iceberg B-09B collided with the protruding Mertz Glacier Tongue along the George V Coast. The Mertz Glacier was already in the process of calving an iceberg when the arrival of the B-09B accelerated the process, [...]
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Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

By | Published: April 5, 2009
THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith Annex VI on Liability Arising From Environmental Emergencies to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Annex VI), adopted on June 14, 2005, at the twenty-eighth [...]
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Global warming hitting all of Antarctica: scientists

By | Published: January 22, 2009
PARIS (AFP) – Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence to suggest global warming is affecting all of Antarctica, home to the world’s mightiest store of ice. The average temperature across the White Continent has been rising for the last half century and the finger of blame points at the greenhouse effect, they said. The research, published [...]
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