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Alien Life Found in Meteorites? Scientist's Claim Stirs Debate

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ET debate engines. A NASA biologist has claimed he discovered microfossil organisms -- ancient bacteria -- inside slices of rare meteorites that fell to Earth and were found in France, Tanzania, India, Canada and the icy Yamato Mountains of Antarctica. After the Journal of Cosmology...

Everest's Youngest Climber Prepares for Antarctica Adventure

He stood on the top of the world when he reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2010 at the tender age of 13, but Jordan Romero thinks he can still scale to new heights in 2011. Romero, now 14, is the youngest person to climb the world's tallest mountain, and he's attempting another record-setting year. His sights are set...

Waves of Terror in the Drake Passage

(Dec. 13) -- You may have seen the sickening footage several days ago of the Antarctic tourist ship Clelia II riding some horrifically nasty waves after a brutal 30-foot wave punched out one of its engines. The blow also knocked out windows and ship communications, and no doubt sent a wave of panic throughout the 88...

SKorean Fishing Boat Sinks in Antarctic; 22 Feared Dead

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Dec. 13) - A South Korean fishing boat sank in the Antarctic Ocean's frigid waters Monday, with 22 sailors feared killed in the open sea where vessels trawl for deep-water fish. Five sailors were confirmed dead and 20 survivors were rescued shortly after the 614-ton vessel went down some 1,400...

Father and Daughter Meet Mother Nature in Antarctica

(Dec. 10) -- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." So goes one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes, and one my 14-year-old...

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Jason Mraz: Global Warming Is No Longer a Future Problem, It's a Now Event

This past February, 2012, on the day after the Superbowl, I achieved enlightenment on a flight from Ushuaia Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, headed back to The United States.

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05/23/12 Six Months of Digital Housekeeping Source: Everything Everywhere After 6 months, I finally arrived back in Wisconsin yesterday.
05/12/12 Big Antarctic ice sheet appears doomed. Source: Environmental Health News A massive slab of floating ice that juts from Antarctica's west coast could be in hot water soon.
05/09/12 West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be on âthe brink of c... Source: Scoop A project to map the Weddell Sea area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the air has revealed that this largely unexplored region is potentially on the threshold of change.
05/04/12 NEW SOUTH AFRICAN RESEARCH SHIP ARRIVES IN CAPE TOWN Source: Coast Week The S. A. Agulhas II, South Africa' s newest modern research and supply ship, arrived in the port of Cape Town from Finland on Thursday.
04/27/12 Global Warming is No Longer a Future Problem, It's a... Source: AOL Healthy Living This past February, 2012, on the day after the Superbowl, I achieved enlightenment on a flight from Ushuaia Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, headed back to The United States.