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[VIDEO] Living Data: Antarctic Treaty Meeting 2012

Living Data contributes to the 2012 Antarctic Treaty meeting in Hobart, 11-17 June. Words are by Lisa Roberts, Sue Anderson and Steve Nicol. Thanks to Tony Press (CCAMLR), Andrew Constable and Graham Hosie (AAD).
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Lost World Discovered Under Antarctica

Lost World Discovered Under Antarctica | Science News | Scoop.it
This discovery is amazing, straight out of a Jules Verne's novel: scientists from the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered a "lost world" thriving with...
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Origins of Antarctica's ice-covered mountains unraveled

Origins of Antarctica's ice-covered mountains unraveled | Science News | Scoop.it
Buried below more than a mile of ice, Antarctica's Gamburtsev Mountains have baffled scientists since their discovery in 1958.
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Did NASA Find a 500-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Crater Beneath Antarctica?

Did NASA Find a 500-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Crater Beneath Antarctica? | Science News | Scoop.it
In 2006, NASA gravity and subsurface radar maps revealed a 500-kilometer-wide crater that lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, created by a 50-kilometer wide object. The gravity measurements suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.
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Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica | Space.com

Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica | Space.com | Science News | Scoop.it
Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica | ANSMET Meteorite Hunters | Antarctic Science...
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"Lost world" uncovered on ocean floor - CBS News Video

"Lost world" uncovered on ocean floor - CBS News Video | Science News | Scoop.it
CBS News: "Lost world" uncovered on ocean floor - British scientists say they have discovered an exciting 'lost world' full of previously undiscovered marine species on the seabed of the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica.
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Video: Fly-Over Antarctica's Cracking Glacier : Discovery News

Video: Fly-Over Antarctica's Cracking Glacier : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
An Antarctic glacier is calving a giant iceberg. More importantly, it is thinning.
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