Britain to claim a million square km of Antarctica
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Britain plans to submit a claim to the United Nations to extend its Antarctic territory by a million square kilometers, the foreign office said on Wednesday.
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By Barry, Patrick Finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology When summer comes to Antarctica this December, a group of physicists there will launch an enormous balloon carrying a scientific instrument through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space.
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Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Polar explorer Will Steger will lead a team across Canada's Baffin Island to document the ways global warming is impacting humans in the far north.
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A service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War is held on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
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Blog: British research shows glaciers moving faster than ever.
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A complex network of rivers and reservoirs beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is mapped by US scientists.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica in a bid to build a potential legal case against whaling for scientific research, the government said Wednesday.
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Britain on Tuesday became the first country to propose legislation setting binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions as it stepped up its campaign for a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
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The calm air above part of the Antarctic makes it the best place on Earth for astronomy, according to the scientists who propose building a telescope in the icy wilderness.
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Two giant slabs of ice are about to collide in Antarctica, possibly with spectacular results, say Nasa experts.
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A handful of scientists and visitors in Antarctica will get a rare treat on Thursday with an annular eclipse of the Sun, while Southeast Australia and New Zealand will get a partial view, websites reported on Thursday.
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The largest polar research programme for 50 years, by thousands of scientists, gets under way this week.
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Denmark aims to show the North Pole belongs to it and is sending an expedition to try to prove that the seabed there is a natural continuation of Danish territory, the Science Ministry said on Monday.
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For the first time, a drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - has been observed mid-formation, in Antarctica.
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GREENBELT, Md. - Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Golden, Colo., have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite to create the most detailed, high-resolution map ever produced of Antarctica.
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.