Protecting delicate polar ecosystems by mapping biodiversity
Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the most threatened and least-understood areas of the world.
Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the most threatened and least-understood areas of the world.
Ecology
Nov 20, 2023
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A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2023
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As the world continues to warm, Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing pace, but the loss of sea ice may lead to more snowfall over the ice sheets, partially offsetting contributions to sea level rise, according to Penn ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2023
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More than merely cracks in the ice, crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath Antarctic ice shelves, potentially influencing their stability, finds Cornell University-led research based on a first-of-its-kind ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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Scientists ran simulations on the UK's national supercomputer to investigate ocean-driven melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet: how much is unavoidable and must be adapted to, and how much melting the international community ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2023
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For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction—something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are a crucial component of Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2023
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A Canterbury climate modeler is part of an international team studying a 764-meter ice core that preserves more than 80,000 years of global climate data.
Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2023
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Extreme events in Antarctica such as ocean heat waves and ice loss will almost certainly become more common and more severe, researchers say.
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2023
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Arctic terns—which fly on the longest migrations of any animal on Earth—may be able to navigate the dangers posed by climate change, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2023
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An analysis of global tracking data for 77 species of petrel has revealed that a quarter of all plastics potentially encountered in their search for food are in remote international waters—requiring international collaboration ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2023
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