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Sea Shepherd chases Japanese whaling fleet from Antarctic sanctuary
2014-01-06 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian government has been urged to lodge a formal protest with Japan after activists said they chased the Japanese whaling fleet from a designated whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean. Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said three of its vessels chased Japanese boats from the area. Sea Shepherd also released video footage that appears to show the butchering of four minke whales on the deck of Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru. The Greens party said the prime minister, Tony Abbott, should...
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U.S. breaker to help Russian, Chinese ships stuck Antarctic ice
2014-01-05 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States is sending a heavy icebreaker to help free a Russian ship and a Chinese icebreaker gripped by Antarctic ice, the Coast Guard said on Saturday. The Polar Star is responding to a request for assistance from Australian authorities as well as from the Russian and Chinese governments, the Coast Guard statement said. "The U.S. Coast Guard stands ready to respond to Australia's request," Coast Guard Pacific Area Commander Vice Admiral Paul Zukunft said. "Our highest priority is safety...
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Antarctic leader defends expedition against critics of its scientific value
2014-01-05 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The leader of the ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic whose members were airlifted to safety last week has condemned the sniping of its critics, accusing elements of the media and climate change deniers of deliberately distorting the scientific value of the trip. Chris Turney, head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, says in an article in the Observer that despite the rescue of those on board the Akademik Shikolskiy, the expedition's research ship that has been trapped in ice since Christmas...
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Antarctic rescue: now US ship on its way to rescue two trapped vessels
2014-01-05 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: An American icebreaker is on its way from Sydney to the Antarctic to free two ships stuck in ice, in the latest stage of a convoluted rescue mission. Twenty-two crew remain on board the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy, which became trapped after a blizzard pushed sea ice around the ship and froze it in place on Christmas Eve. The 52 scientists and tourists on board the research ship were airlifted to safety last week, thanks to the helicopter from the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long. Those...
5 Antarctic facts for climate change sceptics
2014-01-04 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: To most people the prolonged stranding of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy in thick pack ice off the coast of Antarctica is an unfortunate incident that provided passengers with rather static scenery for their Christmas and New Year celebrations. But to some climate change contrarians, repeated attempts to free the vessel from the ice are proof that the theory of climate change is flawed or, at best, exaggerated. After all, a warming planet has no ice at all, right? In Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Roger...
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