The Antarctic strawberry feather star is one of four new related species believed to have been discovered by a team of marine ...

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Scientists used satellite imagery and data to analyze vegetation levels on the Antarctic Peninsula, a long mountain chain that points north to the tip of South America, and which has been warming ...

Angus Atkinson receives funding from NERC, Defra, WWF, Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund Anna Belcher's role in this work was supported by the Ocean Ecosystems programme at British Antarctic Survey ...

Extremely clean air on the ground, warm air intrusions and sulfate aerosol at high altitudes—a Leipzig research project has gained new insights into clouds in Antarctica. From January to ...

Tidal action on the underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic will “inexorably” accelerate melting this century, according to new research by British and American scientists.

For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea ice has reached near-record low levels. This reinforces concerns that human-caused climate change has initiated a lasting “regime shift” in the ...

Some of the team's numerical experiments projected a near-total collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet by 2300. "When you talk to policymakers and stakeholders about sea-level rise, they mostly focus ...

The preliminary results - with 30% of the samples analysed so far, found that in terms of distribution in water, in Buenos Aires it was 256 microplastic particles per litre, compared with 5 ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research. Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key ...