Search for Lake Ellsworth

A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts.
The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km (2 miles) thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which has been isolated from the outside world for at least 125,000 years - maybe a million.

To read more click this link to the BBC.

Follow progress at the Lake Ellsworth Website.

We're doomed, all doomed!!!

The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated.
Writing in Science, the researchers said that the demise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) would result in a sea level rise of 3.3m (10 ft).
Previous estimates had forecast a rise in the region of five to six metres.
However, they added, the rise would still pose a serious threat to major coastal cities, such as New York.

For more information click this link to the BBC or check out the article in Science.

Antarctica joins the rest of the World?

Its been all over the news today - The Antarctic Continent is showing the effects of Global Warming. For more details click this link.

So what? I hear you cry - This is significant because until recently scientist had not observed any effects of Global Warming on this continent other than on the Antarctic Peninsula and about 90% of the Earth's Ice is located in Antarctica- swimming!

It is also a significant find as today saw the end of the International Polar Year - for more details on this click this link.