All posts tagged "Antarctica"

  • In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, a zodiac carrying a team of international scientists heads to Chile's station Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctica. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea, 130 billion tons of ice (118 billion metric tons) per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
    The big melt: Antarctica’s retreating ice may re-shape Earth

    CAPE LEGOUPIL, Antarctica (AP) — From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can’t be seen is the battle raging thousands of feet (hundreds of...

    • Posted February 27, 2015
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  • Seen above is the Antarctic Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay, South Pole. Korea became the world’s 10th country to run more than one year-round research center in the Antarctic with the completion of the new research base. (Yonhap)
    Jang Bogo Station opens in Antarctica

        By Yi Whan-woo Korea opened its second Antarctic research station, Wednesday, making it the 10th country to run more than one year-round station on the southernmost tip of the planet. The Ministry of Oceans and...

    • Posted February 12, 2014
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