Ice shelves are critical for keeping the typical Antarctic landscape balanced, as they prevent water from excessively flowing into the oceans, which would cause global sea levels to skyrocket.
Le Premier ministre japonais Shinzo Abe a réitéré mercredi la volonté de son pays de poursuivre sa très controversée chasse à la baleine dite "scientifique" dans l'Antarctique et de reprendre à terme la pêche commerciale, tandis que l'Agence de la pêche envisage de moderniser son principal navire baleinier.
China published its first white paper on its Antarctic explorations on Monday, pledging to boost its capabilities in the exploration and study of the continent.
Japan's whaling fleet returned on Friday from its months-long Antarctic hunt in the name of scientific research with a take of more than 300 minke whales, a hunt that prompted complaints from Australia.
A Japanese whaling ship has been caught with a dead minke whale on board while sailing through protected Australian waters, according to anti-whaling group, Sea Shepherd.
Climate scientists have reported that sections of Antarctica’s ice shelf, previously relatively unaffected by rising global temperatures, have begun to melt.
Russian researchers do not exclude possible existence of living organisms at the bottom or in the waters of Lake Vostok, the biggest subglacial lake in Antarctica, but water samples they have are not pure enough to be sure of that.
Japanese whaling fleet returned to port on Thursday after killing over 300 minke whales in its first Antarctic hunt since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled its whaling program to be illegal in 2014.
The New Zealand government has led a joint diplomatic protest over Japan's decision to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister John Key said Monday.
Japan said it will dispatch a whaling fleet to the Antarctic Tuesday after a one-year suspension, defying international criticism and a UN legal ruling that the "research" expedition is a commercial hunt in disguise.
La Nasa vient de faire un beau cadeau aux climatosceptiques… en
apparence. Une étude publiée samedi 30 octobre “contredit les
conclusions notamment du Giec [Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur
l'évolution du climat, NDLR] qui affirme que l’Antarctique perd en
surface de glace”, affirme l’agence spatiale américaine.
Au
contraire, la masse totale de glace aurait augmenté grâce à une
accumulation continue de neige depuis 10 000 ans. Cet enneigement serait
plus important que les pertes dues à la fonte des glaciers........Plus il fait chaud, plus il neige 4/11/15 -
The United Nations weather and climate agency said yesterday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole this month in the ozone layer, that shields life on earth from the sun, as it should shrink again.