Australia’s Antarctic bonanza queried

Posted on April 28th, 2008 in Nature, Politics by Matt

Australia’s Antarctic bonanza queried
NEWS ANALYSIS: Australia has become the first country to be granted exclusive property rights in Antarctica, say experts, raising questions about how bioprospecting will be managed in this sensitive and disputed territory.

Antarctic ice shelf ‘hanging by a thread’

Posted on March 28th, 2008 in Nature by Matt

Antarctic ice shelf ‘hanging by a thread’
Satellite images show that a large hunk of Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf has started to collapse in a fast-warming region of the continent, scientists said.