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New Zealand suspends Antarctic patrol ship project, cites COVID budget impact

New Zealand's Ministry of Defence said it has suspended plans to build an Antarctic and Southern Ocean patrol vessel because planned spending is being reassessed due to the impact on the government's budget of costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters

Antarctic and Arctic heat records have been smashed. What's going on?

Temperature records have been sent tumbling simultaneously in parts of Antarctica and the Arctic. Here's what's happening.

ABC News

Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions?

Antarctic and Arctic temperatures have shocked researchers. How unusual are they and what are the consequences?

The Guardian - AU

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Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists

Antarctic areas reach 40C above normal at same time as north pole regions hit 30C above usual levels

The Guardian - UK

Eastern Antarctica registers temperatures 70 degrees above normal, as ‘unprecedented heat wave’ baffles scientists

Temperatures 70 degrees above normal in eastern Antarctica have baffled scientists, who say that the “unprecedented heat wave” has already changed the way experts think about the Antarctic climate system.

Tribune News Service

Hot poles: Antarctica, Arctic 70 and 50 degrees above normal

Parts of Antarctica Friday hit 70 degrees warmer than normal

The Independent UK

Finding Shackleton's ship: why our fascination with Antarctica endures

The discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance in pristine condition at the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea was one of the few good news stories this month.

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Russian MP demands USA hands over Alaska and that Kremlin takes over Antarctica

Oleg Matveychev, a member of Russia's parliament, has demanded reparations from the US for sanctions the country has faced over its invasion of Ukraine, including the return of Alaska, over a century and a half after Russia sold it

Daily Mirror

Secrets under the ice: explorers release footage of Shackleton’s shipwreck

Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton set out on an epic journey in 1914 to attempt the first land crossing of Antarctica. But his ship Endurance got stuck in the ice and sank in the Weddell sea, forcing the crew to abandon the mission. An expedition this week found the wreck and…

Radio France Internationale

The wreck of Endurance is a bridge to a bygone age, and a reminder of Antarctica's uncertain future

Superbly clear images of the shipwreck Endurance, 3,000 metres below the ocean’s surface in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, were this week broadcast around the world. Found by the Endurance 22 Expedition using a state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicle, we now have images almost as iconic as those taken of the stricken ship…

The Conversation

Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton's gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course

When the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was found nearly 10,000 feet below the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in March 2022, it was located just 4 miles from its last known position, as recorded by the Endurance’s captain and navigator, Frank Worsley, in November 1915.

The Conversation

In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica's largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle

Antarctica represents one of the last frontiers for discoveries on Earth. Our focus is on what lies beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s massive wedge of floating ice that shelters the southern-most extension of the Southern Ocean.

The Conversation

How Ernest Shackleton's whisky was rediscovered nearly 100 years on under his Antarctic base camp

The intrepid explorer took the whisky with him to bolster his team's spirits on their quest to reach the South Pole.

Daily Record

Crew Successfully Completes ‘World’s Most Challenging Shipwreck Search’

Photos captured by the Antarctic expedition show incredible detail for a shipwreck over 100 years old.

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Benzinga

The Wreck Of The Endurance, Shackleton's 1915 Ice-Crushed Vessel, Found Off Antarctica

The remains of one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic exploration vessel The Endurance, has been located 107 years after it went down.

The Guardian - UK

Lost and found: the extraordinary story of Shackleton’s Endurance epic

Vessel located more than a century after it sank on voyage of exploration in the Antarctic

The Independent UK

What happened to Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance?

Polar explorer left stranded with 27 crew in wastes of Antarctica in 1915 after vessel trapped in pack ice

Evening Standard

Wrecks, worms and wood: a scientific legacy of Shackleton’s Endurance

“I have been thinking much of our prospects,” Ernest Shackleton wrote in the austral spring of 1915, adrift in the Weddell Sea pack ice. Much of the same thinking crossed my mind in February 2018, when I awoke my cabin mate Thomas on the UK research ship James Clark Ross…

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Daily Mirror

Who is Ernest Shackleton? True story of Endurance expedition as wreck found in Antarctica

The wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship has been found. Shackleton's expedition has been retold as an incredible tale of survival for over 100 years, but his lost ship had never been found - until now

Dublin Live

Ernest Shackleton's Endurance found on Antarctica seabed solving 107 year mystery

Pack ice in the Weddell Sea forced Shackleton and co to abandon ship

Glasgow Live

The brave Glasgow moggy who served as ship's cat aboard Endurance before it sank

Endurance was crushed by sea-ice over 100 years ago, left to sink into the waters of the Antarctic - though the crew, both human and feline - are remembered today.

Irish Mirror

Irish pubs: The bar that connects Kerry to Antarctica thanks to a Crean and Shackleton connection

Renowned explorer Tom Crean was born in the Kerry village and went on the buy the South Pole Inn after his exploits in Antarctica

Evening Standard

Endurance: Who was Ernest Shackleton, what is the history of the ship and why is the discovery so important?

Scientists have found one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks after it sank in the Antarctic 107 years ago, in what has been labelled the “world’s most challenging shipwreck search”.

The Independent UK

Antarctic explorer Shackleton's ship found after a century

Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice

Axios

Ernest Shackleton's lost ship Endurance found 107 years after sinking off Antarctica

This is one of history's most famous shipwrecks.

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