Antarctica
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US research station staff evacuated from Antarctica in high-risk operation
Travel to Antarctica during the southern winter is restricted to emergencies with crews having to navigate ext…
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‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica
Conservationists warn actions and ambitions of two super powers could lead to overexploitation of vital food s…
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Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang
Dr Steph Kaefer spent three weeks documenting unique colloquialisms on the frozen continent after newcomers we…
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Australia would be ‘naive’ to think China’s new Antarctic station not for surveillance, analyst says
National security experts express concern over resumed construction of observatory which could be used for int…
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Surveillance fears as China resumes construction on fifth Antarctic base
Satellite images show building work for first time since 2018 amid concern about Beijing’s growing polar prese…
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Antarctic researchers gain insights from on high as they count seals from space
Scientists used satellite images and more than 300,000 volunteers to count Weddell seals, a key Southern Ocean…
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Logbooks linked to Antarctic explorers Shackleton and Scott found in storage room
‘Priceless’ artefacts recording details of the famed expeditions of the 1910s were discovered in the vaults of…
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Covid live: boosters in UK can now be given earlier to vulnerable people; Russia sets another new high for deaths
Booster jabs in UK can now be given to certain vulnerable people sooner than six months after a second dose; R…
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Climate study linking early Māori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy
Research tying Māori activity 700 years ago to Antarctic changes sparks debate in New Zealand over Indigenous …
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‘We’re starting to see failures’: New Zealand’s ageing Antarctic base gets $300m lifeline
Life-support systems at Scott Base are operating beyond their lifespan, with leaking buildings and old electri…
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China helps evacuate sick Australian from Antarctica in five-day mission
Ships, helicopters and planes traverse thousands of kilometres of icy continent in complex, multinational medi…
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‘We knocked the bastard off’: rare photographs of Edmund Hillary’s Everest expedition
More than half a century ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to summit Everest. Now a …
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‘The time has come’: Ardern apologises for New Zealand’s worst air disaster
PM sorry for state-owned Air New Zealand’s efforts to blame pilots for 1979 crash into Antarctica’s Mt Erebus …