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Directly south of New Zealand, the Ross Sea, Antarctica, is home to some truly amazing wildlife. One-third of Adelie penguins, one-quarter of Emperor penguins, and the southern-most Weddell seals live in the Ross Sea region. There are killer whales, seabirds, colossal squid and a host of much tinier invertebrate locals ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Conservation, Consumerism, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability, Transparency
A third US retailer has announced it will not stock seafood from Antartica’s Ross Sea for environmental reasons, reports Greenpeace. Harris Teeter joins US supermarket chains Safeway and Wegmans by taking the ‘Ross Sea Pledge’ which means it will not buy or sell seafood from that area. It is ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in March, about Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Industry & Business, Polar Sea Ice, Retail, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (2 comments)
In a bid to protect the Alaskan coastline from oil drilling, Actor Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace New Zealand activists have settled in for an overnight stay onboard Shell’s Arctic-bound drillship the Noble Discoverer in the port of Taranaki, New Zealand. The activists scaled the drillship at 7 a ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in February, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Polar Sea Ice, Pollution
New Zealand actor Lucy Lawless — star of hit US TV show Spartacus and Xena: Warrior Princess — joined Greenpeace activists from NZ, the UK and Spain in stopping a Shell-contracted oil drillship from departing New Zealand for the Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate the Alaskan coastline ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in February, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Polar Sea Ice, Politics & Government, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
Vladimir Putin has been given a sample of the mysterious water of Lake Vostok, now back in Russia. They have the first sample of water from Lake Vostok and scientists are now heading back to Russia. They won't be back in Antarctica until next Summer, but there will be ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in February, about Chemicals, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water (2 comments)
Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and unknown Lake Vostok, 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, Russian news agency RIA Novosti said Monday. “Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the subglacial lake,” the news agency ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in February, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Polar Sea Ice
Wow ! What a surprise. Two excellent intelligent programmes on TV1 last night. Primeval New Zealand at 7.30pm which was stunning, intelligent and informative, well presented with a lovely touch of Kiwi humour from time to time. And to think our national icon, the kiwi, and so much more came ... keep reading
Written by Kaitie F in January, about awards, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Media, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability
Siku is a polar bear cub born in captivity in Denmark and has become a major hit . Born at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park November 22, 2011 his mother had not produced milk for three years. The cub was constantly screaming so, as the zoo's website tells us, "Instead of ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in January, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Ocean, Polar Sea Ice (1 comment)
In 1773, Captain Cook described the great southern continent Terra Australis Incognita as ‘A country doomed by nature never once to feel the warmth of the sun’s rays but to lie forever buried under everlasting snow and ice’. But is it? We used to think of Antarctica being completely ... keep reading
Written by Chris Turney in December 2011, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Science
In one of the endless twists in the battle between the Japanese whalers and the Sea Shepherd , the Research institute that does the "research " to justify the scientific research claim made as the rationale for Japanese whaling is suing the anti whaling group Sea Shepherd. The Japanese whaling group has ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Polar Sea Ice, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability
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