 | Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica. British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is now supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands. It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment. Scientists monitoring satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf spotted that a huge (41 by 2.5 km) km2 berg the size of the Isle of Man appears to have broken away in recent days -- it is still on the move. Glaciologist Ted Scambos from the University of Colorado alerted colleagues Professor David Vaughan and Andrew Fleming of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that the ice shelf looked at risk. After checking daily satellite pictures, BAS sent a Twin Otter aircraft on a reconnaissance mission to check out the extent of the breakout. Jim Elliott was onboard the BAS Twin Otter to capture video of the breakout for Vaughan and colleagues. He says, "I've never seen anything like this before -- it was awesome. We flew along the main crack and observed the sheer scale of movement from the breakage. Big hefty chunks of ice, the size of small houses, look as though they've been thrown around like rubble -- it's like an explosion." |
 | Crevasse Rescue A practical demonstration of crevasse rescue using an unassisted hoist. Taken from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland's Alpine Essentials DVD. Full DVD available here: http://www.mcofs.org.uk/dvds-publications.asp |
 | Explorer Antarctic Liner Sinks The first cruise ship ever built to ply the frigid waters off Antarctica became the first ever to sink there. The red-hulled M/S Explorer struck ice Friday, took on water as 154 passengers and crew members scrambled to safety aboard lifeboats and rafts, and then it went to the bottom. |
 | gars qui tombe dans une crevasse un gars qui frole la mort!!!!!! |
 | Antarctic blizzard at Halley Base Moving around Halley base during a blizzard |
 | Scientists Capture Giant Antarctic Sea Creatures Would like to see some more ? Bigger ? watch this : http://youtube.com/watch?v=xDcsByYGzSE CHAN: Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures never seen before. They saw sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jelly fish with six meter long tentacles. They also filmed other unknown species of sea life. Here's more. STORY: A fleet of three Antarctic marine research ships returned to Australia this week ending a summer expedition to the Southern Ocean where they carried out a census of life in the icy ocean and on its floor more than one kilometer below the surface. [Martin Riddle, Marine Scientist Doctor]: "A huge diversity of life, very colorful, very rich, far exceeding any of our expectations." The three ships, the Aurora Australia, France's L'Astrolabe and Japan's Umitaka Maru all docked in Hobart on Australia's southern island state of Tasmania. Their decks are full of an array of sea life including unknown species of sea creatures collected near the eastern Antarctic land mass. [Martin Riddle, Marine Scientist Doctor]: "There are forces happening in the world, in the atmosphere and in the ocean that are going to change even this the Antarctic and the southern ocean, so it is really important now to have baseline so that we know what we have got now, so that we can identify whether it is changing and put in place measures to protect it before it is lost." The Australian Antarctic Division expedition will help scientists monitor the impact of environmental change in Antarctic waters. |
 | 3-2-1 Contact: Arctic / Antarctic Song about the differences between the North and South Poles. Pretty useful! |
 | Major of Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaks Apart A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday. (March 26) |
 | 36 Week Belly View, 360 Degree View 36 Week Belly View, 360 Degree View |
 | Traveling the Antarctic Ice Sheet http://icestories.exploratorium.edu On their way to measure GPS stakes on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), glaciologists walk us through their plan and gear for the ski-doo journey. |
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