In particular, the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in West Antarctica are losing mass extremely rapidly carrying large amounts of meltwater into the Southern Ocean. Photo: David Vaughan, BAS Deep-sea currents around Antarctica could slow by 42 percent over the next...
Lobster krill, Munida gregaria, plays a central role in the food web around the Falkland Islands. Photo: Shallow Marine Surveys Group The marine food web around the Falkland Islands, with numerous species at the lower and upper trophic levels, is controlled by only a...
Beluga whales, which live in the Arctic, are toothed whales and use echolocation to track their prey. Photo: Michael Wenger After a decade of work, a Danish-German research team deciphered how toothed whales generate the clicks they use to locate and catch their...
Antarctic sea ice in all its forms provides a habitat not only for seals and penguins, but also for numerous species at the base of the food web. Climate change also alters the living conditions for ice algae, krill & Co. Photo: Julia Hager The sea ice around...
Anton Steketee (left), Sean Chua, and Dr. Petra Heil developed NILAS, the new Southern Ocean mapping platform. Photo: Wendy Pyper What is the typical sea ice concentration east of the Antarctic Peninsula in February, or what was the chlorophyll concentration in the...
