The unmanned underwater vehicle Ran has disappeared under a glacier in Antarctica. "It's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, but without even knowing where the haystack is," says Anna Wåhlin, project manager and professor at Gothenburg University, in a press release.
Bird flu has been detected in fur seals and elephant seals on the subantarctic island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic, scientists confirm. It is a cloud of worry because the infectious disease has already killed millions of birds worldwide.
Climate change occurred at an ominously high rate between 2011 and 2020, a new report shows. It looks particularly bad for the world's glaciers, which shrank by around 1 meter a year.
The world's largest iceberg, with an area of nearly 4,000 square kilometers, has begun to drift again after being stuck for decades.
The sea ice around Antarctica is decreasing and is significantly less than what is normal for the month of September.
In several colonies of emperor penguins, almost all the chicks died when the sea ice in Antarctica melted last year. - They probably drowned, or floated away on ice floes and starved to death when their parents couldn't find them, says researcher Norman Ratcliffe.
The Antarctic ice sheet is smaller than it has ever been measured to be.
An overwhelming majority of the world's glaciers are shrinking and many of them could disappear in the not-too-distant future, according to a series of new studies. This means that we may soon experience the same state as during the postglacial warm period 8,000-4,000 years ago
The Arctic and Antarctic have been 30-40 degrees warmer than normal this week, and heat records have been broken at at least one weather station. It's not a good sign when you see stuff like this happen," said University of Wisconsin meteorologist Matthew Lazzara
For the first time, we will now find out what happens during the winter, with carbon dioxide uptake and salinity and thus get more accurate data to put into different climate models to get more accurate predictions about the future
