The world’s largest iceberg
An enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, in Antarctica. The iceberg, newly named A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size and is […]
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Scientists reconstruct past history of largest ice shelf on Antarctic Peninsula
Read more of: Scientists reconstruct past history of largest ice shelf on Antarctic PeninsulaFor the first time, geological records have been used to reconstruct the history of Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The ice shelf is the largest remaining remnant of a […]
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Underwater robot reveals how Thwaites Glacier is melting
Read more of: Underwater robot reveals how Thwaites Glacier is meltingFor the first time, researchers have collected data from underneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica using an underwater robot.
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Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warms
Read more of: Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warmsPolar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The results, published this week (9 December) in the journal Communications Earth and […]
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Krill provide a highway for ocean carbon storage
Read more of: Krill provide a highway for ocean carbon storageLarge krill swarms in the Southern Ocean could help remove additional carbon from the atmosphere, in a way that is currently ‘hidden’ in global models. Scientists knew that the carbon-rich […]
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Do your PhD with British Antarctic Survey in 2021
Read more of: Do your PhD with British Antarctic Survey in 2021Applications for PhD projects with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are now open for October 2021 admission. There are currently over 100 PhD students associated with BAS, working on a huge variety […]
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SO-WISE
Read more of: SO-WISESO-WISE addresses a critical knowledge gap in understanding how warm ocean water reaches and melts the undersides of West Antarctic ice shelves, which is currently the largest source of uncertainty in global sea level rise projections.
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Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature record
Read more of: Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature recordThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) at an automatic weather station in Greenland on 22 December 1991 as the coldest ever recorded in the […]
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Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes
Read more of: Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changesNew research has revealed that climate changes associated with past episodes of abrupt warming in Greenland occurred synchronously across a region extending from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere subtropics. […]
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Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
Read more of: Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035. High temperatures in the Arctic […]
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Record warming at the South Pole
Read more of: Record warming at the South PoleThe South Pole has warmed at over three times the global rate since 1989, according to a paper published in Nature Climate Change today (29 June 2020). This warming period was […]
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New briefing paper on Arctic change
Read more of: New briefing paper on Arctic changeBAS researchers have contributed to a new briefing paper about the Arctic published this week (25 June 2020). Working with a team at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, […]
