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NZ Defence Force - Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130H (NZ) Hercules have conducted a successful medical evacuation (medevac) from Antarctica, a challenging mission given a rapidly closing window of daylight. Read More

At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the record low of 2023. Read More

A nifty new machine for Scott Base, some good listening and we celebrate international seal day. Read it all in the March Science Update. Read More

New Zealand Defence Force - Royal New Zealand Navy Maritime Logistics Officer Sub Lieutenant Henry Cunningham shares his experience on deployment to the icy continent at the bottom of the planet. Read More

Radio New Zealand's The Detail - If you want to study the health of the world's oceans, you need to get to their heartbeat. That's deep in the Ross Sea, where the sea ice factories of Antarctica - or polynyas - live. Read More

Newshub - Every major global climate record was broken last year, says the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Global Climate report. Antarctic sea ice shrank by an area roughly the size of Egypt. Read More