`Alien species threat to Antarctic environment`

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:35

Ecosystems in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands are being irreversibly changed by alien plant and animal species introduced through human contact, a leading Antarctic researcher warned Tuesday.

US icebreaker heads to Antarctic to help stuck ships

Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 03:46

US icebreaker Polar Star was on Saturday set to sail for the Antarctic to assist a Russian vessel trapped in heavy ice and a Chinese ship which went to its aid, officials said.

Rescued Antarctic passengers resume journey home

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 19:10

An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home on Saturday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice.

Antarctic ship rescue set to start: Authorities

Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 06:39

Rescuers are expected to launch a complex operation using a Chinese helicopter to airlift passengers from a Russian ship ice-bound in Antarctic seas as weather improves, Australia`s maritime authority said on Thursday.

Sir Ernest Shackleton`s 1914 expedition pics found in Antarctica

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 14:59

Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators have found a box of 22 exposed but unprocessed negatives, which were frozen in a block of ice for nearly a century.

Antarctic ship passengers to be evacuated by Chinese helicopter: Russia

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 02:08

Most passengers and some crew from a scientific expedition ship stranded off Antarctica will be evacuated by helicopter to a Chinese icebreaker if weather conditions improve, Russia said Monday.

Antarctic ship passengers to be evacuated by Chinese helicopter: Russia

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 20:13

Russia said on Monday that most of the passengers and some of the crew stranded on a scientific expedition ship off Antarctica will be evacuated by a Chinese helicopter should the weather allow.

China icebreaker `stalls` on way to stranded Antarctic ship

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 03:43

A Chinese icebreaker heading to rescue a scientific expedition vessel trapped off Antarctica has itself stalled in icy conditions, Australian media said.

Chinese icebreaker on way to help trapped ship in Antarctica

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 13:48

Help may be on the way for the scientific mission ship trapped in East Antarctica.

First Antarctic airborne campaign to monitor ice and land begins

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 13:11

With the arrival of NASA`s aircraft and scientists at the National Science Foundation`s McMurdo Station in Antarctica, the agency`s Operation IceBridge has begun its 2013 Antarctic field campaign.

Ancient Antarctic ice may reveal Earth`s past climate conditions

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 15:17

Scientists have identified regions in Antarctica that they claim stores data about Earth`s climate and greenhouse gases extending as far back as 1.5 million years.