More than just ice: What makes the best address for an emperor penguin colony?
A new study of the habitat needs of emperor penguins show that the iconic seabirds are more flexible in their abilities to choose a place to live than previously assumed.
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Failure to freeze: Low Antarctic sea ice may be ‘new abnormal’
The first evidence is emerging of a regime shift underway in the Southern Ocean where Antarctic sea ice is entering a different state of lower coverage.
Helicopters track warm ocean water melting Totten Glacier ice shelf
Probes dropped from helicopters through ice cracks help reveal that warm ocean water is melting the largest glacier ice shelf in East Antarctica from below.
Antarctic researchers land prestigious DECRAs in Tasmania
Researchers with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership awarded two of four DECRAs to Tasmania
Urgent call for Southern Ocean science in a changing world
Hundreds of international scientists are sounding a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean science in the emerging climate crisis.
Antarctic sea ice scientist wins Future Fellowship grant
Landfast ice is crucial for the Earth’s climate
Eyes of the world on Southern Ocean
More than 250 people from 25 nations will meet in Hobart during August for the first-ever global conference of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS).
New study of Antarctic landfast ice charts dramatic crash
The first-ever broad review of Antarctic ‘landfast’ ice highlights its far-reaching importance in the Earth system while documenting a recent dramatic crash in its extent.
Polar scientists call for urgent action in view of rapid Arctic and Antarctic change
Polar scientists are calling for an urgent intensification of national and international research and observational capabilities in view of rapid Arctic and Antarctic change.
Antarctic deep ocean currents have slowed in the past three decades
Researchers have found that the deep ocean circulation around parts of Antarctica has slowed by 30 per cent since the 1990s, reducing oxygen levels across the world’s deep seas.