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26 days ago

Underwater expedition by Florida-based team supports possible therapeutic use of bacterial toxins from sea squirts

Researchers at a Florida university say bacterial toxins produced by tiny marine orga…

36 days ago

In this week’s newsletter: The melting of the Arctic’s summer sea ice is the most visible upshot of the climate crisis. Refreezing it might be a long shot – but do drastic times call for drastic meas…

40 days ago

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

The harsh temperatures,…

45 days ago

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

Temperatures in the Antarctic reached above 15C this month, shattering the previ…

53 days ago

My partner and I were booked on a once-in a-lifetime trip to South America and the Antarctic in January this year to celebrate my 60th birthday.

60 days ago

The German-operated Neumayer Station III was battered by a violent blizzard back in January, resulting in a huge slab of ice and seven shipping containers drifting away into the Weddell Sea.

79 days ago

Rapidly melting ice shelves in Antarctica could trigger global sea levels to rise even faster than expected, scientists have warned.

3 months ago

Amanda Barry’s dad had always wanted to return to the continent, where he worked in 1948, but died before he had the chance. She fulfilled his ambition, and felt closer to him than ever

Amanda Barry w…

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis h…

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