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Over 100 years of Antarctic agriculture is helping scientists grow food in space

Figuring out how to feed people in space is a major part of a larger effort to demonstrate the viability of long-term human habitation of extraterrestrial environments. On May 12, 2022, a team of scientists announced that they had successfully grown plants using lunar soil gathered during the Apollo moon…

The Conversation

Trailblazing Mountaineer Takes On Seven Summits Challenge

With two peaks to go, Erin Parisi seeks to become the first transgender person to complete this daunting climbing event.

Zenger

First whales make trails off Hunter's coastline

About 40,000 humpback whales are set to make their annual migration through the winter months from Antarctica to warmer northern waters.

Newcastle Herald

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NASA’s plan to put humans back on the Moon hits yet another snag

In today's Inverse Daily, read science stories on NASA’s Moon woes, hidden delights under the Antarctica ice sheet, and female reproductive healthcare.

Inverse

Emperor Penguin at serious risk of extinction due to climate change

The emperor penguin, which roams Antarctica's frozen tundra and chilly seas, is at severe risk of extinction in the next 30 to 40 years as a result of climate change, an expert from the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) warned.

Reuters

Scientists in Antarctica discover a vast, salty groundwater system under the ice sheet – with implications for sea level rise

A new discovery deep beneath one of Antarctica’s rivers of ice could change scientists’ understanding of how the ice flows, with important implications for estimating future sea level rise.

The Conversation

Toughness has limits: over 1,100 species live in Antarctica – but they're at risk from human activity

It’s hard to survive in bitterly cold Antarctica. But the ice continent is home to more than 1,100 species who have adapted to life on land and in its lakes.

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World's most remote post office advertises rare job - which includes counting penguins

Staff working at the Penguin Post Office in Port Lockroy in Antarctica live in a Nissen hut and have no access to running water and very limited communication with the outside world

Daily Mirror

British same-sex couple make history with Antarctica wedding

Eric Bourne said his marriage to Stephen Carpenter resulted in ‘the best day’ of his life.

The Independent UK

Crew of RSS David Attenborough become first same sex couple to wed in Antarctica

Stewards Eric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter were married by the captain of the research vessel in the British Antarctic Territory

Daily Record

Welsh groom and partner make history by becoming first same sex marriage in Antarctica

The couple have been together for 20 years before holding their wedding in the chilly setting

Wales Online

Antarctica's 1954 Mawson Station team final surviving member John Russell dies aged 101

After a long and adventurous life, the last surviving member of the historical team who built Antarctica's Mawson Station during 1954 passes away.

ABC News

Warmer summers threaten Antarctica’s giant ice shelves because of the lakes they create

During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This melted water collects to form thousands of lakes around the edges of this vast continent. Most of these lakes form…

The Conversation

Into the deep south

Boldly go where no ordinary traveller has gone before. Surely you owe it to yourself after two years of lockdowns and no-travel zones.

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Polar science threatens to crack under strain of Russia's war in Ukraine

Crucial scientific projects in the Arctic are in limbo as Russia becomes more isolated from the world.

The Conversation

The South African ship that found Antarctica's Endurance wreck is vital for climate science

It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance. It was an ill-fated journey: the ship got trapped in the ice and eventually crushed by pack ice in 1915. It sank to the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddell…

The Hindu

The Indian Antarctic Bill and its various provisions

What are the objectives of the draft? What has India achieved with respect to Antarctic research and exploration?

The Independent UK

British charity on hunt for team to help count penguins in Antarctica - here’s how to apply

Those who are successful will be based on Goudier Island in the Antractica Peninsula, alongside a colony of Gentoo penguins

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Centre introduces Antarctica Bill in Lok Sabha

Bill seeks to regulate Indian activities in Antarctica

The Conversation

Mapping out meteorites in Antarctica: scientists' bid to uncover our solar system's deep past

A Belgian-Dutch team of scientists has created the first-ever “treasure map” that shows where in Antarctica meteorites are likely to be found. Meteorites are chunks of stone-like material that can be found on the surface of the Earth after falling from space.

Benzinga

Gallup poll On Energy Production Vs. Climate Protection: Americans Are Split Along Party Lines: CNBC

Russia’s assault on Ukraine has lifted gas prices near record levels, reflecting Western sanctions on the world’s third-largest oil producer. Meanwhile, an ice shelf just disintegrated in Antarctica, and the Great Barrier Reef is suffering mass bleaching caused by record temperatures.

Bangkok Post

Antarctica heat wave brings enormous temperature jump

A heat wave in Antarctica earlier this month was so extreme that it may be the largest temperature increase above normal ever recorded, according to Robert Rohde, lead scientist at the non-profit Berkeley Earth, who analysed global records.

Zenger

Rapid Retreat Of Sea Ice In Antarctica Explained By ‘Simple Physics Of Sun’s Melting Powers’

Scientists are now trying to determine why the Arctic region does not show similar patterns.

ABC News

Couple celebrates Antarctic 'wedding' on RSV Nuyina's second trip to the southern continent

It was far from the dry, dusty wedding in Western Australia's wheatbelt that Benn Ellard and Briege Whitehead had planned, but when they headed to Antarctica on the RSV Nuyina's second voyage to the icy continent, they started dreaming of a much colder, visually spectacular ceremony.

The Conversation

Now Shackleton's Endurance has been found, who determines what happens to the famous shipwreck?

Tonight’s federal budget will include more than A$800 million over ten years to provide a “clear marker” of Australia’s “scientific leadership” in Antarctica.

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