| February 15, 2008 | - The floppy ribbon worms of Antarctica were expected to meet their first predators in millions of years due to warming water.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 20, 2007 | -
Melting ice in the Arctic revealed previously unknown islands that have yet to be claimed.
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| May 16, 2007 | - Scientists in the Antarctic discovered hundreds of new worm and crustacean species, along with a new kind of gourd-shaped carnivorous sponge.
| Source:
Reuters via Scientific American
|
| August 1, 2006 | - Nacreous clouds, which occur only in temperatures lower than minus 176 degrees Fahrenheit, were observed above Antarctica.
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| April 19, 2006 | - Researchers discovered that the buried lakes of Antarctica are connected to one another by secret rivers.
| Source:
BBC
|
| March 31, 2006 | -
British scientists found that the air temperature in Antarctica was rising three times faster than in the rest of the world.
| Source:
The Times
|
| November 24, 2005 | -
German scientists discovered a singing iceberg in Antarctica.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| April 23, 2005 | - In the Antarctic, iceberg B15A, the largest moving object on earth, crashed into the Drygalski ice tongue, breaking off three square miles of ice.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| January 6, 2005 | - An iceberg the size of Long Island was about to smash into an Antarctic glacier.
| Source:
NASA
|
| September 24, 2004 | - Scientists said that over the last 15 years several glaciers in Antarctica have increased the rate at which they are sliding into the sea.
| Source:
Wired News
|
| August 14, 2003 | - In Antarctica, researchers for the first time successfully photographed a whale passing gas.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| April 8, 2003 | -
A rare 16-foot “colossal squid” was caught near Antarctica.
| |
| January 7, 2003 | -
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as President of Brazil; the United States snubbed the celebration of Brazil's first leftist, working-class president by sending the U.S. trade representative, Robert Zoellick, whom Lula dismissed as “the subsecretary of a subsecretary of a subsecretary,” after Zoellick warned that Brazil would be exporting its products to Antarctica if it didn't support President Bush's economic policies.
| |
| March 26, 2002 | -
An iceberg the size of Luxembourg broke away from Antarctica and shattered into thousands of pieces.
| |
| February 6, 2001 | -
Scientists spent five weeks watching helicopters fly over king penguins in the Antarctic to determine whether the birds topple over backward while watching aircraft. They do not.
| |
| September 26, 2000 | - The World Meteorological Organization found that the hole in the ozone layer, which for a decade has formed each year over Antarctica, was growing more rapidly than usual and could break all the records this year; the hole, which covered 11 million square miles, had reached the Argentinean town of Ushuaia.
| |
| August 1, 2000 | - A twenty-two-year-old man with a gun walked onto a National Airlines Boeing 757 at Kennedy Airport in New York and demanded that the pilot fly him to Antarctica.
| |
PDF
IMAGES
