Scientists set to explore 100,000 year-old ocean under Antarctic ice
The 45-member team hopes to find clues of evolution and mobility of marine life
As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better models to predict its future
Some scientists have suggested this year could mark a regime shift for Antarctic sea ice
Iceberg twice the area of New York City to break off Antarctica
The break could happen anytime this year or early next year, say experts
Polar Ebb & Stockholm+50: We need urgent agreement to protect Antarctica, the Arctic
Countries should draft an Arctic Treaty System in line with its Antarctic counterpart
Greenland's Ice Sheet has 60 subglacial lakes underneath, say scientists
The new 56 lakes are important targets for studying evidence of extreme life
60 days in Iceberg Alley, drilling for marine sediment to decipher Earth’s climate 3 million years ago
Sediment layers are like a library of the Antarctic’s past environment
Antarctica’s sea ice is at its lowest extent ever recorded
High temperatures and warm air from north may be responsible: Experts
New robotic study finds dense ice under Antarctic
First survey to drill into underwater ice as deep as 20 metre
First polar bear to die of bird flu – what are the implications?
Any further cases might also be closely associated with outbreaks of H5N1 in a nearby seabird colony
Antarctic ozone hole now larger, thinner & may take longer to recover. Mesosphere has a role to play: Study
Meteorological conditions could have largely driven fluctuations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole
Casting the net wider
More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble
Annual extent of winter sea ice has stopped increasing and now we have had two years of record lows
In a first, a polar bear has died of avian flu in the Arctic, confirms Alaska
The animal likely contracted the disease after feeding on infected bird carcass
Study finds high GHG emissions could turn continental shelves in Antarctic Marine Protected Areas severely acidic by 2100
Under high, very high emissions scenarios, there will be widespread aragonite undersaturation, implying unstable conditions
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First cases of avian flu found in Antarctic region
Researchers identify species and areas most vulnerable to spread of infection
The world was in high fever in 2020
The State of the Global Climate 2020 lists the major global warming milestones
Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt
Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme
Emperor penguin at risk from global warming
Study estimates penguin population in Antarctica to decline by 50 per cent
Tropics could lose important commercial fish by 2050
Global warming might force fish species to move to cooler waters at the poles
Australia says no to protecting Japanese whale hunters
Does not buy country’s argument that it is whaling for scientific reasons
Antarctica provides at least $276 billion a year in economic benefits to the world, new research finds
Antarctic research may have prevented significant damage to livelihoods and infrastructure across the world
Avian flu reaches mainland Antarctica, confirm scientists
Discovery triggers need to prepare polar programmes to avoid transmission of infection to humans
‘Modest’ 2023 Antarctic ozone hole ranks 12th overall but still sign of recovery
The depletion would have been lower had it not been for the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January 2022
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
COP28 will take stock of the step change in ambition needed, but the gulf in climate finance promises and realities presents an obstacle to a …