Mélanie Gomez with AFP / Photo credits: Adrian Wlodarczyk / Robert Harding RF / robertharding via AFP 5:10 p.m., September 7, 2023modified to 7:27 p.m., September 7, 2023 The warming of Antarctica, twice as high as in the rest of the world, is much greater than estimated by climate models, write researchers in a study…
Romain Rouillard with AFP / Photo credit: PHOTOSTOCK-ISRAEL / SCIENCE PHOTO / PSI / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY VIA AFP 9:15 p.m., September 04, 2023 The RSV Nuyina, an Australian icebreaker 160 meters long, traveled 3,000 km to help a researcher at the isolated Casey base in Antarctica. The latter will now have to be brought…
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist August 29, 2023 at 09:00 52 Small emperor penguins are not equipped to swim © Ayanali123 / Shutterstock Scientists can follow the evolution of emperor penguin colonies thanks to their visible traces by satellite. But the analysis of the pictures of the last summer in Antarctica was sadder than expected. When…
Like its predecessors, the thirteenth WorldUpdate refines its target territories to enhance their essential monuments and stick more faithfully to reality. If Australia and New Zealand are already looking good, the rest of Oceania was still crying out for hunger. The wrong is righted. Using state-of-the-art topological data and new aerial photographs, the Bordeaux residents…
The extent of the Antarctic sea ice reached a melting record in February, in the middle of the austral summer, the European climate observatory confirmed on Wednesday after similar American data, suggesting an intensification of the melting over the last decade. . Sea ice, which melts in the summer and rebuilds in the winter, reached…
WhileOverwatch 2which has been available for free-to-play on most gaming platforms since October 2022, is about to welcome its third season, we were able to talk to the developers about the “Antarctica” mapwhich will soon be integrated into Blizzard’s FPS. Information and visuals for the Antarctica map Note, to begin with, thatAntarctica is a map…
Mathilde Rochefort January 25, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. 8 © Derek Oyen / Unsplash The mission of four scientists in Antarctica, the objective of which was to hunt meteorites, bore fruit. They have indeed discovered a particularly imposing specimen. Of the 45,000 meteorites found in Antarctica over the past century, only about 100 were as…
By Le Figaro with AFP Posted yesterday at 7:40 p.m., Update yesterday at 9:47 p.m. The block of ice, measuring 1,550 square kilometres, broke off during a high tide that enlarged an existing crack in the ice. A huge iceberg more than 15 times the size of Paris broke away from Antarctica on Sunday, British…
King Charles III He now also rules parts of Antarctica King Charles III is the new head of state of the United Kingdom. © imago/UPI Photo King Charles III was proclaimed monarch in Antarctica. Research station staff even held a ceremony. King Charles III now reigns in one of the most remote places in the…
Since 1979, scientists have had very precise measurements of the extent of the ice floes at the North and South Poles thanks to satellites. Antarctic sea ice last month reached its smallest July area on record in 44 years of satellite records, the European climate change service Copernicus has warned, confirming an alarming year. Since…
DR 06/27/2022 at 1:00 PMUpdated 06/27/2022 at 12:49 New Zealand scientists have discovered a colony of small crabs of an unlisted species more than 500 meters deep under the ice of Antarctica. It is a world even less known than the planets of the solar system and almost as difficult to access. However, it is…
What a deal, the iPhone manufacturer grabs a real Marvel hero for its in-house streaming service Apple TV+. None other than Tom “Loki” Hiddleston will soon be in front of the camera for an exciting biopic series. Well, if Disney+ doesn’t get mad at that, right? Tom Hiddleston’s most famous role is undoubtedly that of…
