Antarctica

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For the last century or more, much of Earth’s land and ocean surfaces have been steadily warming, which we now understand is a product of climate change. But in parts of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, sea surfaces cooled considerably since the early 1980s. And now, scientists think they know…

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Follow CleanTechnica on Google News. May 1st, 2020 by Cynthia Shahan  A new paper has emerged with fresh data from NASA providing a visual of Antarctica’s rapidly melting ice. The recent data is presented in a paper published in the journal Science on April 30, 2020. Data from space imparts…

Skip to content Antarctica is a hotbed for finding meteorites, largely because they stand out more against the white backdrop Groundbreaking fresh research has revealed that Earth is under constant assault from the heavens with 16,000kg of space material raining down on our planet every year.A team of UK scientists…

NASA has been making observations of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets for the last 16 years. The tool NASA has been using is the most advanced earth-observing laser instrument it’s ever placed in space known as the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) launched in 2018 combined…

Main Blog > The Great Antarctic Escape Spain operates two bases in Antarctica, on Livingston Island and Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. They are only manned during the summer months and are not equipped to house research teams through the winter. So when the news of a global…

This article originally appeared on VICE India.Just a few weeks ago, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered the largest hole in the ozone layer ever in the Arctic—a hole that covered an area roughly three times the area of Greenland. But scientists at the Copernicus' Atmosphere Monitoring Service…

Crabeater seals feed almost exclusively on Antarctic krill. Credit: Dan Costa The western Antarctic Peninsula is experiencing rapid environmental change, with warming air and ocean temperatures and decreasing sea ice. How these changes will affect Antarctic krill is a crucial question, because this abundant crustacean is an important food source…