PRESS RELEASE: Antarctic crabs could be native
A 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 […]
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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 […]