新西兰英语 821 Antarctic summer season opens

The first flight for the summer to Scott Base in Antarctica left Christchurch yesterday. Another flight left today and a third one will leave tomorrow with cargo. Aboard the planes are staff of the New Zealand Defence Force and the US Antarctic progr

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By VOA News 15 January 2008 A group of climate researchers says there is evidence that global warming is causing the Antarctic ice cap to melt more quickly than it did 10 years ago. The scientists said Monday they used satellite data to monitor the A

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新西兰英语 666 IceFest in Christchurch

IceFest is a festival about Antarctica. Antarctica is often called The Ice; for example Dave Dobbyn visited the Ice two years ago. IceFest is a month-long festival, from September 14th to October 14th which includes the school holidays. It is in Hagl

新西兰英语 686 Antarctic Summer season starts

During the weekend, about 10,000 people visited the US air force Globemaster at Christchurch airport. The Antarctic summer season opened today and the Globemaster was ready to take scientists and maintenance staff to Scott Base and McMurdo Base. Scot

新西兰英语 744 Death of famous mountaineer

George Lowe, a famous New Zealand mountaineer, died yesterday at the age of 89. He was born in Hastings and became a teacher. During the school holidays, he climbed in the Southern Alps where he met Edmund Hillary and they became good friends. In 195

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By David McAlary Ocean animals in parts of Antarctica are facing a food shortage. A new British study finds that a staple of the marine wildlife diet, tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill, has dram

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a kind of ghost story next. It's the backstory of a discovery. Three years ago on this program, we placed a phone call to the journalist Paul Watson. He was on an icebreaker, a ship in the Arctic with the aid of a helicop

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Earlier, we spoke to Zhang Beichen, a senior member of China's Antarctic Scientific Expedition on board the icebreaker Xuelong. He was also on the ship when the Xuelong freed itself. He said there was a lot of excitement when the ship finally got fre

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Icebreaker Xuelong returns after Antarctic expedition

SHANGHAI, April 8 (Xinhua) -- China's icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, returned to its Shanghai base on Sunday after completing the country's 28th Antarctic expedition. The vessel received a brief welcoming ceremony at the base dock, organized by

新西兰英语 325 Historic Antarctic photos

An exhibition of historic Antarctic photographs opened at Canterbury museum in Christchurch today. Some of the photos were taken during Captain Scotts journey to the South Pole 100 years ago while the other photos were of Shackletons expedition from

新西兰英语 550 Antarctic exhibition in London

First listen to the previous item: Journey to the South Pole. Tomorrow an exhibition called Scotts Last Expedition opens in London, in the Museum of Natural History. Captain Scott and the four men who went to the South Pole with him, died on their re

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What would you pack for a six-month trek on the coldest continent in the world? Bear in mind that there'll be no shops around and no help from home. That's the challenge the British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes faces as he prepares to lead a six-stro