International news » Nov 19, 2009
More international news. Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying that a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Cruise Ship Carrying 100 Tourists Stuck in Antarctic Ice Nov 18, 2009
The Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker is about 5 miles from clear water near Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea, German Kuzin of the Fareastern Shipping Company told Russia's Vesti 24 television ... A spokesman for the Met Office, Britain's weather service, said stations along the Weddell Sea reported temperatures ranging between -7 and -11 degrees Celsius at 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday. (Fox News)
Rather Than Melt, Some Glaciers Race to the Sea Sep 25, 2009
An iceberg drifts in the Iceberg graveyard, an area where many icebergs from the Weddell Sea end up. Seth Resnick / Science Faction / Corbis. (Time.com)
Many Antarctic Species Ill Prepared To Cope With Warmer Ocean Jul 7, 2009
Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea. (Oct. (Science Daily)
Edith Ronne, 89; became 1st US woman on Antarctica Jun 19, 2009
The group explored more than 250,000 square miles of the continent, including both coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea s southern margin. They traveled by land and by air, setting down at 86 points to make celestial observations. (Boston Globe)
Mathematics And Climate Change: Gaining Insights Into The Nature Of Sea Ice Apr 14, 2009
13, 2009) In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the complex composite material that results when sea water is frozen. (Science Daily)
An Antarctic ice shelf has disappeared: scientists Apr 5, 2009
REUTERS/Mariano Caravaca/Handout. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One Antarctic ice shelf has quickly vanished, another is disappearing and glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought due to climate change, U.S. and British government researchers reported on Friday. (Scientific American)
Ice Bridge Under Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapsing Apr 4, 2009
11, 2008) When the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, the event appeared to be a sudden response to climate change, and this long, fringing ice shelf in the north west part of the Weddell Sea. . (Science Daily)
