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Sea ice

March 2024

  • Penguins watch the Noosfera, Ukraine’s Antarctic research vessel, which keeps the Ukrainian and Polish bases supplied.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists

  • Polar bear walks on ice in the Arctic with melting ice behind it

    Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say

January 2024

  • Melting ice in Antarctica

    Australia not prepared for how Antarctic ice changes will hit economy, scientist warns

    Exclusive: Prof Matt King says accelerated melting could transform country and affect viability of some agricultural industries

December 2023

  • This undated image provided by British Antarctic Survey, shows the North Cove, in Antarctic. No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study found. (Michael Shortt/British Antarctic Survey via AP)

    Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’

    Study after study showed the breakdown of climate systems taking place much earlier than foreseen, with potentially catastrophic results

October 2023

  • Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland.

    Weatherwatch
    At what threshold is Greenland ice cap’s melting irreversible?

    Melting of the 3km-thick ice cap is one of the biggest contributors to sea level rise but can be halted
  • A large, pinkish-orange crab with maybe 1-foot-long claws, on a wet black plastic surface.

    Billions of snow crabs in Alaska likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says

    The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA
  • A penguin jumps on to the ice in Antarctica

    Without the Southern Ocean we cannot survive on Earth. Our research must wait no longer

    Nathan Bindoff
    We’re racing to keep up with the pace of change as a future arrives faster than we predicted

September 2023

  • hot three momnths

    The hottest summer in human history – a visual timeline

  • Sea ice on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and a map from the University of Colorado National Snow and Ice Data Centre showing the extent of sea ice on 24 September 2023.

    Antarctic sea ice shrinks to lowest annual maximum level on record, data shows

  • Antarctic sea ice from above

    Antarctica may have entered ‘new regime’ of low sea ice as global warming ramps up

  • An Adelie penguin stands the east of Antarctica.

    Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels

August 2023

  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    I only read about climate change now because I have to

    First Dog on the Moon
    I am doing this for YOU dear reader I hope it brings you some solace

  • Why thousands of emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica died in the 2022 breeding season – video

    One expert estimated as many as 7,000 chicks may have perished

    • Scientists lament Southern Ocean ‘data desert’, just as climate crisis brings frightening changes

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      The desperate race to create a protection zone around the rapidly melting Arctic

    • Fears over Antarctic sea ice as yearly ozone layer hole forms ‘very early’

July 2023

  • People walk through a dust storm in Prayagraj, India.

    Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?

    Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice prompt fears of widespread damage from extreme weather

June 2023

  • Arctic ice near Svalbard, Norway

    Too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find

    Ice-free summers inevitable even with sharp emissions cuts and likely to result in more extreme heatwaves and floods

April 2023

  • The ‘Doomsday’ Thwaites glacier in Antarctica

    Ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres a day, far faster than feared, study finds

    Sediments from the last ice age provide a ‘warning from the past’ for Antarctica and sea level rise today, say scientists

February 2023

  • RSV Nuyina at a dock

    Antarctic science expedition put on ice due to problems with Australia’s research vessel Nuyina

    Ocean voyage to study declining sea ice levels cancelled after RSV Nuyina required repairs, leaving climate scientists dismayed
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