The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.
Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
We're comparing the event to other data of cloud cover, temperature and other factors near Antarctica at that time. It's still too early to tell, but there's a lot of curiosity about events like this and not a lot of data. We've been comparing notes and pooling data to learn more.
Greenhouse gases could be having a bigger impact in Antarctica than across the rest of the world, and we don't understand why.
We can now see Antarctica melting. We have a number for the ice sheet. It's a big step toward understanding how the sea level is going to change.
When I was there it was actually warmer than it was here. At that time there was a cold spell here and the temperature was in the teens. In Antarctica it was between 20 and 40 degrees.
We had quite a surprise. It was a bit like finding that Antarctica is warmer than the Earth's equatorial regions. It's that strange.
Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of fresh water.
This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara.
It's like flying past Antarctica and finding that it's warmer than the earth's equatorial regions. It's that strange.
That's all dependent on the wind and weather. Life in Antarctica is controlled by those two things.
I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.
Great God! This is an awful place.