Antarctica's Front Line on Climate Change Research

As chair of the Air New Zealand Sustainability Advisory Panel and Director of Forum for the Future, mitigation of and adaptation to climate ...

Antarctica's Front Line on Climate Change Research - Jonathon Porritt

Antarctica's Front Line on Climate Change Research ... At the end of last year, I was fortunate enough to have a trip down to Antarctica, to look ...

Lessons from Antarctica: the frozen continent on the frontline of the ...

I will continue to support Global Choices, who are working to prevent the exploitation of the Central Arctic Ocean – an ecosystem inextricably linked to the ...

Scientist Dispatch: Signs of a Changing Climate in Antarctica

The Antarctic ice sheet, covering an area larger than the United States and Mexico combined, absorbs as much as 75 percent of the earth's excess ...

Wisconsin team works front lines of Antarctic climate change research

The team of faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Madison Area Technical College each day capture data from a series ...

Impacts of climate change - Discovering Antarctica

Antarctica has experienced air temperature increases of 3°C in the Antarctic Peninsula. Although that might not seem very much, it is 5 times the mean rate of ...

£4m study to investigate if climate change will drive the Antarctic Ice ...

A major £4 million EU-funded study to investigate how changes in Antarctica's ice sheets and shelves may lead to a large and irreversible rise in global sea ...

Climate Crisis in Antarctica - Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition

The polar regions are the first to be affected by the heating climate, and dramatic changes are already underway in Antarctica. Floating ice shelves are melting ...

What does Antarctica have to do with climate change?

In February, Tishiko set out on an incredible journey to Antarctica to understand its importance to our global ecosystems and witness first-hand ...

After Witnessing Climate Change Effects in Antarctica, Expert Calls ...

A: On our trip we traveled along the western Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest changing places on our planet. It's a region that has ...

Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites

This trend echoes a wider pattern of greening in cold-climate ecosystems in response to recent warming, suggesting future widespread changes in ...

Antarctica is melting faster than ever. Here's what we can do about it

With global warming now heavily affecting Antarctica, it is vital we identify useful tipping points in technology and human behaviour that ...

Reporting from the front line of climate change - Discovering the Arctic

Changes include loss of sea ice and snow, melting of glaciers and ice sheets, freshening and warming of the Arctic Ocean, thawing of permafrost and ecological ...

Climate Diaries: Scientists on the front lines in Antarctica - CBS News

“There are several spots around here, around Antarctica, that are believed to be in this irreversible situation, where the ice on the ground is ...

Understanding climate: Antarctic sea ice extent

Each line shows daily sea ice extent—the total area at least 15% ice covered—in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica from 2016 (lightest blue) ...

Climate change is turning Antarctica green, but not in a good way

The greening, driven primarily by the spread of mosses, has accelerated notably since 2016, researchers found. “The landscape is still almost ...

The Antarctic is warming faster than almost everywhere else. Here's ...

It's the latest evidence from scientists that the Antarctic is bearing the brunt of climate change. Scientists believe parts of the continent ...

NASA nears finish line of annual study of changing Antarctic ice

Antarctica is heading into austral summer, a period of rapid sea ice melt in the Southern Ocean. But this year the sea ice loss has been ...

Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment: A Decadal Synopsis ...

Among the first detailed studies were those from investigations of hull fouling and ballast water of research and supply vessels departing from Hobart ...

Climate change: past and future - Discovering Antarctica

Studies of Antarctica have played a crucial role in this, as the continent has been collecting ice in layers for millions of years and provide hidden clues ...