CANBERRA, Australia — Japan has agreed to release without charge three Australian activists who boarded a Japanese vessel off southwest Australia as part of a campaign to stop whale hunting in Antarctic waters, Australia’s attorney-general said Tuesday. The three men boarded the security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 on Sunday as it tailed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s flagship the Steve Irwin. Read full article > >

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Australian government says Japan agrees to release 3 activists who boarded Japanese whaler

A New Zealand plane drops supplies of equipment and fuel to a Russian fishing boat stranded in icy Antarctic waters.

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Supplies dropped to stricken ship

King penguin chicks are filmed bathing in a mud “spa” to keep their large, fluffy bodies cool in the Antarctic summer.

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Penguins ‘visit spa’ to keep cool

King penguin chicks are filmed bathing in a mud “spa” to keep their large, fluffy bodies cool in the Antarctic summer.

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Penguins ‘visit spa’ to keep cool

A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice sheet could find new forms of life and clues to climate change.

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Antarctic lake mission gets ready

Drawings from Captain Scott’s Antarctic mission to go on display

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Captain Scott drawings on display

Such was the scale of last Friday’s tsunami that sizeable waves reached right across the Pacific basin to New Zealand and the Antarctic, say NZ researchers.

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Japan tsunami touches New Zealand

A new study shows that ice melts far more extensively at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet, miles below the surface, than scientists had thought. The findings raise the possibility that melt water may even help govern the behavior of glaciers.

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Green: A Big Surprise Beneath the Ice

Scientists show how the Antarctic ice sheet is growing from the bottom up in some places, as liquid water freezes on to the bottom of the White Continent’s ice covering.

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Antarctic ice built ‘bottom-up’

Samples of a marine creature collected during Scott’s Antarctic expeditions are yielding data that may prove valuable in projecting climate change.

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Scott samples give climate clues