PRESS RELEASE: Antarctic emperor penguins
Antarctic emperor penguins may be adapting to warmer temperatures A new study of four Antarctic emperor penguin colonies suggest that unexpected breeding behaviour may be a sign that the birds […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Pine Island Glacier and climatic variability
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Pine Island Glacier and climatic variabilityPine Island Glacier sensitive to climatic variability A new study published in Science this month suggests the thinning of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is much more susceptible to […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Evidence of life in frozen sediments
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Evidence of life in frozen sedimentsLife found in the sediments of an Antarctic subglacial lake for the first time Evidence of diverse life forms dating back nearly a hundred thousand years has been found in […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Krill risk from warming seas
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Krill risk from warming seasWarming Antarctic seas likely to impact on krill habitats Antarctic krill are usually less than 6 cm in length but their size belies the major role they play in sustaining […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Antarctic crabs could be native
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Antarctic crabs could be nativeA new study has cast doubt on the claim that crabs may have disappeared from Antarctica only to return due to warming seas. The theory surfaced two years ago following […]
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PRESS RELEASE Age and Antarctic clams
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE Age and Antarctic clamsAge matters to Antarctic clams A new study of Antarctic clams reveals that age matters when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change. The research provides new […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Increase in melt rates on Antarctic Peninsula
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Increase in melt rates on Antarctic PeninsulaNew insight into accelerating summer ice melt on the Antarctic Peninsula A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Summer melt season extending
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Summer melt season extendingSummer 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 […]