A humpback whale surfaces near two trawlers. All are pursuing Antarctic krill. Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd Global, CC BY-ND By Matthew Savoca, Stanford University The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales –...
Antarctica may seem isolated, but it’s actually more connected to the rest of the Southern Hemisphere than it seems. With a threat to its unique ecosystem. Photo: Michael Wenger By Hanna Dawson, Adele Morrison, Ceridwen Fraser and Matthew England The remote icy...
Looking up Crane Glacier, December 21 1968. PGC, UMN, CC BY Ryan North, University of Wollongong and Tim Barrows, UNSW Sydney In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania. In a paper...
Photo: Michael Wegner Danielle Udy, University of Tasmania; Anthony Kiem, University of Newcastle; Neil Holbrook, University of Tasmania; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University, and Tessa Vance, University of Tasmania Australia has a long history of bushfires....
A blizzard with brutally cold temperatures hit Iowa and neighboring states on Jan. 12, 2024. Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images By Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell Over the past few days, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept...