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Dec 22, 2020 07:41 PM EST
(Photo : Getty Images/Mario Tama) ANTARCTICA - OCTOBER 28: A section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with mountains is viewed from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on October 28, 2016 in-flight over Antarctica. NASA s Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past eight years and is currently flying a set of 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica at the start of the melt season. Researchers have used the IceBridge data to observe that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in a state of irreversible decline directly contributing to rising sea levels. NASA and University of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers have recently detected the speediest ongoing Western Antarctica glacial retreat rates ever observed. The United Nations climate change talks begin November 7 in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.
1st Covid-19 cases recorded in Antarctica 1 minute read
Santiago de Chile, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Covid-19 has now spread to every continent on Earth as 36 people have tested positive for the coronavirus at a Chilean military base in Antarctica.
The Chilean army reported in a statement that 26 military personnel and 10 civilian contractors at the Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base tested positive on Sunday and were evacuated and “isolated” in Punta Arenas, a city in southern Chile.
Those infected are being “constantly monitored with the support from the Health Authority of the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, achieving so far a favorable diagnosis and without any complications associated with Covid-19 by our staff,” added the institution.
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