PRESS RELEASE: Summer melt season extending
Summer melt season is getting longer on the Antarctic Peninsula, new data show New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over […]
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PRESS RELEASE: New research station operational
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: New research station operationalNew state-of-the-art Antarctic research station becomes fully operational this month Britain’s latest Antarctic Research Station becomes fully operational this month, signalling a new dawn for 21st Century polar research. Opening […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Assessing potential sea level rise
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Assessing potential sea level riseNew Antarctic geological timeline aids future sea-level predictions Radiocarbon dates of tiny fossilised marine animals found in Antarctica’s seabed sediments offer new clues about the recent rapid ice loss from […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Lake drill mission called off
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Lake drill mission called offAntarctic lake mission called off In the early hours of Christmas Day (Tuesday 25 December 2012) Professor Martin Siegert, Principal Investigator of the Subglacial Lake Ellsworth experiment, confirmed that the […]
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PRESS RELEASE: British team to explore buried lake
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: British team to explore buried lakeBritish team set to access and sample one of the last unexplored environments on Earth This week (12 December) a British team of scientists and engineers, including scientists from British […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Effects of ocean acidification
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Effects of ocean acidificationFirst evidence of ocean acidification affecting live marine creatures in the Southern Ocean The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Changing winds increasing sea ice cover
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Changing winds increasing sea ice coverWhy Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Ice sheet behaviour analysed
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Ice sheet behaviour analysedIce sheet retreat controlled by the landscape Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists. A UK team led by Durham University has found […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Mission to Antarctic buried lake
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Mission to Antarctic buried lakeBritish team set to embark on ambitious Antarctic mission to penetrate & sample ancient buried lake After 16 years of planning the countdown is on for one of the most […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Antarctica’s climate timeline
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Antarctica’s climate timelineNew climate history adds to understanding of recent Antarctic Peninsula warming Results published this week by a team of polar scientists from Britain, Australia and France adds a new dimension […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Shellfish and changing oceans
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Shellfish and changing oceansNew study helps predict impact of ocean acidification on shellfish An international study to understand and predict the likely impact of ocean acidification on shellfish and other marine organisms living […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Ocean role as carbon sink
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Ocean role as carbon sinkNew discovery of how carbon is stored in the Southern Ocean A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn down from […]
