Flying gets slushy in AntarcticaFor a second season the Wilkins blue ice runway in Australian Antarctic territory is closed due to warm conditions. Well, comparatively warm. Crikey’s aviation journalist Ben Sandilands discusses landing planes in the coldest place on Earth.
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China stamps all over Antarctica
China has come out and said what other countries have previously not dared: they want to mine the natural resources of Antarctica. Can the Antarctic Treaty hold or will China flex its muscles like it did in Copenhagen?
A flotilla of icebergs descending on New Zealand
Yet another flotilla of icebergs is making good speed toward the south-eastern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. It may make for an incredible spectacle, but it also poses a significant hazard to shipping in the area.
Political snippets: Bring back those fluorocarbon sprays — the Antarctic ice needs them
Ice coverage in the Arctic is declining at a frightening rate while in the Antarctic, there has been a small but steady growth; Gordon Brown enacts some sweet revenge on Rupert Murdoch; and the US forms a Gang of Four.
This ice shelf global warming hype leaves me cold
Is misreporting really necessary to get the global warming message across to the masses? Asks Ben Sandilands.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: PETA applauds Rudd’s vegetarian stance
Mr Rudd may have spit the dummy on a RAAF flight at the prospect of having his diet derailed by a fatty meat meal, but who wouldn’t? writes PETA’s Alistair Cornell.
Antarctica: what gives?
Why are the poles telling different stories about global warming? Many reasons, explains Ian McHugh, not least of which is that they’re very different places.
From Bali to Antarctica – Rudd’s next green challenge
This week presents the Rudd government with another opportunity for leadership in environmental diplomacy, this time on the vexed issue of Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean, writes Dr Tim Stephens.
