A new study published in Nature examines the economic value of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to the global economy. Image: Mirjana Binggeli Rachel Baird, Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, and Natalie Stoeckl, Professor of Economics at the University...
Portal Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being...
The SWAIS 2C team’s drilling camp on the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, 860 kilometers from New Zealand’s Scott Station. Photo: Anthony Powell The scientific team of the SWAIS 2C project has successfully completed the first stage and recovered the...
Melting in Antarctica is already causing sea levels to rise and could raise them by 10 metres by the year 2300. (Photo: Michael Wenger) As negotiators continue to wrangle over a phase-out of fossil fuels at COP28 in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, leading...
The drilling camp of the SWAIS 2C project in West Antarctica. Photo: Craig Stevens, NIWA/New Zealand A drill core from the sea floor under the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica is expected to provide information about past warm periods and thus enable more accurate...
