ANTARCTICA
July 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallTHE BIG fear of environmentalists, that global warming is melting the world's ice caps, is maybe not true after all, at least this year, with European Space Agency surveys showing that pack ice has been unusually heavy in the Antarctic sea, trapping ships trying to deliver supplies to polar scientific bases.The vessel Magdalena Oldendorff has been ice-bound for more than a month after trying to return from a Russian base. And earlier, British ship RRS Ernest Shackleton was blocked from its mission to the remote ice shelf Halley by unprecedented ...
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