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Tom Dalton, Batesville Herald Tribune : The moment of truth for the “lost men” likely came soon after they were put ashore in Antarctica and returned days later to find their ship, the Aurora, was gone. It had broken loose from its moorings in a gale, leaving them stranded with few supplies in a desolate, frozen land. Read the rest of this entry »

United Press International : Buenos Aires’ airport has become the first in the world to have a permanent, licensed psychiatric clinic for white-knuckle flyers. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article
Media:The Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA USA
Date:August 7, 2006

By Nick Squires, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor: Antarctica under siege. Stunning beauty and the promise of oil and minerals are bringing more people to the once-pristine continent.
At the bottom of the world, more than two miles beneath the wind-blasted surface of Antarctica, sits a wonder of the last untouched continent. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article
Media: ABC News - USA
Date: August 7,2006

Rare Cloud Formation Seen Over the Skies of Antarctica, Scientists Say
The Associated Press. Some of the coldest temperatures on Earth brought a rare cloud formation to the skies over Antarctica, scientists said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article:http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=8482
Media: Merco Press - Montevideo, Uruguay
Date: August 7, 2006

Chile and Argentina agreed to turn 4.7 million hectares of land in northern Patagonia into a biosphere reserve, safeguarding some of the region’s most magnificent wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004763.html
Media: World Changing - USA
Date: July 31, 2006

Altering Antarctica, Geoff Manaugh: There are a wide variety of overlooked and forgotten ways in which humans participate with, and alter, the biological systems around them. A few seeds, trapped in the soles of our shoes, can cross oceans with us in airplanes, bringing gardens, and weeds, and parasite species to the other side of the earth; trace amounts of infectious diseases can cling to our clothes and decimate livestock several nations away; snakes, rats, spiders, mosquitoes – all can easily ride the ships and planes of globalization. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1691737.htm
Media: ABC Science Online - Australia
Date: July 24, 2006

Colder Antarctic waters drove the evolution of deep sea octopuses, suggests new research.Australian researcher Dr Jan Strugnell of Queen’s University Belfast and the British Antarctic Survey says the formation of ocean currents around the continent millions of years ago provided the right conditions for ocean creatures to evolve. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://www.republic-news.org/archive/143-repub/143_dan_adleman_che.htm
Media: The Republic -Vancouver, Canada
Date:  July, 24, 2006

Recent transformations of politics on the continent wrought by Chavez and Morales indicate a new direction inspired by the legendary revolutionary 
by Dan Adleman In Achieving Our Country, Richard Rorty, one of America’s most interesting political philosophers, wrote, “Those who hope to persuade a nation to exert itself need to remind their country of what it can take pride in as well as what it should be ashamed of. They must tell inspiring stories about episodes and figures in the nation’s past. . . . Nations rely on artists and intellectuals to create images of, and to tell stories about, the national past. Competition for political leadership is in part a competition between differing stories about a nation’s self-identity, and between differing symbols of its greatness.” Read the rest of this entry »