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POPSBizarre but true facts about the Earth The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year. The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea. The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
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POPSLatest Antarctic Sea Ice Extent ''it is mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Ice extent remains well (one million square kilometers) above the 28 year average and an impressive 3 million square kilometers above last year at this time!. There is clearly a lot of year to year variability in the record but the demise of the Antartic icecap seems to be anything but imminent. Most of the warming and melt in recent years has been in the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula, a small portion of the Antarctic which reaches above the Antarctic Circle and is a choke-point for the circumpolar ocean currents, and is more susceptible to variations. There’s also an active subsea volcano in the area, perhaps leading to the warm water upwelling in the study''
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POPSPics from Antarctic "Seal Cam" I have seen "turtle cam" before. Scientists view the habitat and the organism they are studying from the back of the Weddell Seal, so they can also study the habits of the seal without having to kill anything. Why not do this to whales? Gosh, think how many cameras you could connect to a whale and have WHALE-A-VISION. It could be an excellent way to study their feeding habits and other patterns of behavior. Could record sounds also. Can someone suggest this to prevent whale killing?
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POPSThe Real Antartic Explorer Hero: Tom Crean
"Crean is portrayed, telling of his life and adventures, in a one-man play titled Tom Crean, Antarctic Explorer, written and performed by Aidan Dooley. The play premièred in New York in 2003, and has toured around the world, including a run Off-Broadway in the summer of 2007 at New York's Irish Repertory Theatre." "Crean is commemorated in at least two place names: Mount Crean (2550 m) in Victoria Land, and the Crean Glacier on South Georgia. He is also remembered in the 2001 TG4 Documentary 'Ciarraíoch san Oighir' (A Kerryman in the Ice)." "Crean saw service in the WW1, and retired from the navy in 1920. He married and opened up a small pub called "The South Pole Inn." Throughout his life, Crean remained an extremely modest man. When he returned to Kerry, he put all of his medals away and never again spoke about his experiences in the Antarctic" These medals did cause him some grief when Black&Tans turned over his public house. They uncovered them and concluded he'd stolen
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POPSCruz del sur de meteoritos sobre nieve antartica Unfortunately, its not always that easy. Most of the areas ANSMET goes to are near the Transantarctic Mountains, since it is those mountains which block the flow of ice to the sea and create the meteorite stranding surfaces. As a result, many of these areas have some density of wind-blown rock across their surface, and if that rock is black in color, finding the meteorites can be difficult. Can you tell which of the rocks in this image is a meteorite?
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POPSBill Cassidy in antartica "There are some hazards in polar life that are very hard to avoid. In this image Bill Cassidy endures a classic hardship- one of those pesky snotsicles." NC:l I copy/paste text from source, clipmarks on firefox didn't catch thisone
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