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Thursday, March 10, 2022 Already a subscriber? LOGIN » By: Staff – Updated: 8 hours agoPosted Mar 9, 2022Geneva Marie (Kettering) Hogue, 96, passed away after a brief illness March 8, 2022, in Brookings, SD. Geneva was born June 6, 1925, to Alice (Johnson) and Harold B. Kettering in Aberdeen, SD. The family lived on…

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Start exploring magnificent places with our weekly travel newsletter.A quartet of king penguins trumpet their mating joys, as others continue molting their brown winter fur away at South Georgia’s Fortuna Bay.Welcoming committee of king penguins at Fortuna Bay on the north coast of South Georgia Island. Travelers arrived by Zodiac Adelie penguins on the ice of…

Jump to navigation Photo by Bernard Breton/iStockWith their silky white bellies, black feathers, and adorable waddle, emperor penguins are instantly recognizable to many. The flightless Antarctic birds achieved worldwide fame with the 2005 Academy Award–winning documentary March of the Penguins, which chronicled one colony’s struggle to survive the brutal Antarctic winter. But the bird’s celebrity status…

“We’re coming to a better understanding now that we need to get on top of this biodiversity crisis.”Theresa Guillette joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss her research on alligators and fish as sentinel species for environmental health, and how PFAS are moving through our ecosystems.Guillette, an environmental scientist at Arcadis…

When I first started going on solo backpacking trips, one of the things I enjoyed was having to be self-reliant. It was empowering to be miles away from the help I might need if something went wrong. I felt like the success of each trip was entirely dependent on my preparation and decision-making. I made…

AdvertisementSupported byTo the Editor:I finished reading “Shackleton: The Biography,” by Ranulph Fiennes, several days before I read the slightly mocking review of the book by the noted author, scientist, biologist and penguin expert Lloyd Spencer Davis (Feb. 13).Far from having the expertise Davis can claim, my sole credential is being obsessive about Ernest Shackleton and…

There is currently less ice in the Antarctic Ocean than at any time on record as climate change pushes up temperatures – and it is continuing to melt, according to new figures.Preliminary measurements show the sea ice around the continent fell to 1.98 million square kilometres on Sunday 20 February – below the previous record…

by Jeremy Gray posted Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 9:15 AM EST Photographer Nigel Danson recently took a photography trip to Antarctica. He took lots of great gear with him, including the new Nikon Z9 and Nikon Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S telephoto zoom lens. Danson primarily focuses on landscape photography, so you may think…