By LAW, Tina After 12 years of taking 32,000 New Zealand students on virtual field trips, the Christchurch company that developed the programme is exporting the concept overseas. Heurisko is hoping about a million children in Asia will benefit from its Learnz programme during the next five years.

A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science stations, a New Zealand official said Tuesday.

A British pilot forced by bad weather to abandon her attempt to fly around the world over both poles said Friday that an Australian aviator stranded at a research station on the Antarctic coast could use fuel she had stored there.