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antarctica
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Rockabye baby: the ‘love songs’ of lonely leopard seals resemble human nursery rhymes
CassandraSm/Shutterstock Lucinda Chambers, UNSW Sydney and Tracey Rogers, UNSW Sydney Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes…
Rare Arnoux’s Beaked Whales Observed in Southern Ocean for First Time in Decades
At a Glance Researchers from Wageningen Marine Research and their partners have made a significant discovery in the…
First map of vegetation across Antarctica reveals a battle for the continent’s changing landscape
Claudia Colesie Claudia Colesie, The University of Edinburgh A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse…
We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Antarctic glaciers before a dramatic collapse
Looking up Crane Glacier, December 21 1968. PGC, UMN, CC BY Ryan North, University of Wollongong and Tim…
West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today
Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA Dan Lowry, GNS Science and Holly Kyeore Han, NASA As the climate…
New Study Reveals Alarming Levels of Plastic Pollution in Polar Regions
At a Glance The once pristine polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica are now facing the pervasive…
A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level
Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a…
A heatwave in Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – and here are the results
DM Bergstrom, Author provided Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong Climate scientists don’t like surprises. It means our…
Antarctic Study Reveals Surprising Link Between Seawater Temperature and Methane Emissions
Summary of: Submarine Accumulations of Methane Hydrates in Adjacences of Marambio Island (Seymour Island), Antarctica and Its Probable…
Luminous ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds explain why climate models miss so much Arctic and Antarctic warming
YanaBu, Shutterstock Katrin Meissner, UNSW Sydney; Deepashree Dutta, University of Cambridge, and Martin Jucker, UNSW Sydney Our planet…