Ratmanoff walkers return to the colony on foot when they haven’t landed directly on it from the sea. Image: Camille Lin A Franco-Canadian study of king penguins in the largest colony on the Courbet Peninsula in Kerguelen shows that these birds are highly...
At the end of the first SOOS Symposium in Hobart, Australia, scientists call for the urgent expansion of research in the Southern Ocean in the face of rapidly advancing climate change. (Photo: Peter W. Allen) The first international Symposium on the Southern Ocean...
Most areas of the world’s oceans, especially the polar oceans, were up to 5°C warmer on July 22 than the average between 1991 – 2020, NOAA’s map shows (Graphic: NOAA) Many countries in Europe, parts of the USA and Canada, and also large parts of...
Contaminants of emerging concern are chemicals that have been found in the environment but whose effect has yet to be fully understood. In Antarctica they are primarily released through research and tourism activities (Photo: Julia Hager) Long a concern elsewhere,...
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...