Antarctica Business News

Moving in the Spirit: Radio station has new home

"I know people depend on us, so they can keep plugged into what's happening in the Tampa Bay area," says Jamie Derzypolski of Spirit FM, which recently moved into new quarters. mbearden@tampatrib.com Published: November 21,...

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AP International NewsBrief at 10:22 a.m. EST

Downbeat Dell weighs on world marketsLONDON (AP) _ World stock markets fell Friday amid mounting concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery following a disappointing earnings update from computer maker Dell Inc....

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Simon Calder: The seven classes of Man, Antarctic style

Imagine checking in for a 12-hour, 6,000-mile flight, yet not needing to show a passport because it's a domestic journey. No, this is not a trip across all 11 time zones of Russia: it is a flight chartered from Qantas by a firm...

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Science stimulus

X-ray diffractometer for geology 2009-11-20 By Tim Post, Minnesota Public Radio [broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, 11/20/2009] St. Paul, Minn. — Nothing excites a scientist like the prospect of starting new...

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Receding Ice, Rising Oceans

Summary: Astrobiology Magazine's climate blog, The Hot Zone, recently discussed how receding glaciers could have catastrophic consequences for Earth's climate. Consider Greenland, with its 2.5 million gigaton ice sheet. Using...

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Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic

MOSCOW -- A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has reached clear water after being halted for days by thick ice, its owners said Friday. The Captain Khlebnikov...

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Holland America Line Wins Nine Porthole Readers' Choice Awards / Premium Cruise Line Attracts Top...

SEATTLE, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Among the nine 2009 Readers' Choice Awards that Holland America Line has received from Porthole Cruise Magazine are five that recognize the line's varied and port-intensive cruise itineraries....

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Look homeward, NASA

The agency's Earth-science budget has been slashed at a time when it is most needed L ast month, 360 miles above the Earth, a little-noticed light went dark. It was the third and final laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land...

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Portraits of Peru: Why supermodel Helena Christensen returned to her roots

This autumn model-turned-photographer Helena Christensen travelled to Peru, her mother's homeland. But last month, I travelled to tropical Peru to see a hidden side of a global crisis. Throughout my childhood we made trips to...

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Final voyage of the Japanese whaling fleet?

Innoshima, Japan, 19 November, 2009 - Following a week of potentially crippling budgetary reviews and a high-profile visit from US President Barack Obama to Japan, shortly after 10am today the so-called ‘scientific’ whaling...

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