Sie wuchsen mit dem Internet auf – und beseitigten althergebrachte Vertriebsstrukturen und Abhängigkeiten Oktober 2005: Die Blitzkarriere – Arctic Monkeys beflügeln den Web 2.0-Mythos In jenem ereignisreichen Jahr 2005 überschlugen sich die Meldungen. Dauernd hörte man von dieser jungen, aufregenden Band aus Sheffield, der es angeblich alleine mit Hilfe des Internet gelungen war, einen enormen Bekanntheitsgrad zu erlangen. Die Zukunft, so schien es, hatte begonnen. Die Verursacher des... Der Beitrag Warum die Arctic Monkeys 2005 die Musikwelt veränderten erschien zuerst auf Rolling Stone.
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once thick ice is dwindling, says polar researcher Edward Doddridge.
[Africa Renewal] Integrity is key as world's largest carbon market auction is held in Nairobi
Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives An underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of “coral IVF” and recordings of fish noises could offer a “beacon of hope” to scientists who fear the fragile ecosystem is on the brink of collapse. The experiment – a global collaboration between two teams of scientists who developed their innovative coral-saving techniques independently – has the potential to significantly increase the likelihood that coral will repopulate degraded reefs, they claim. Continue reading...
Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, defecate and die, they help store lots of carbon
Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, minister says.
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause earthquakes, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
The rate of retreat of the ice caps in the northern Sredinny Range from 2002 to 2017 was 4.3 times higher than from 1950 to 2002.
Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost , Creel et al., Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control subsea permafrost distribution and thickness, yet no permafrost model has accounted for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which deviates local sea level from the global mean due to changes in ice and ocean loading. Here we incorporate GIA into a pan-Arctic model of subsea permafrost over the last 400,000 years. Including GIA...
Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.
To understand vulnerable glaciers, climate scientists extract ice from continent’s remote and stormy coast
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 4, April 2024.
The Montana GOP Senate candidate now says he lied about accidentally shooting himself at Glacier National Park.
Scientists are a step closer to being able to predict when large icebergs will calve in Antarctica. A team of glaciologists will present their new results at the European Geoscience … The post Scientists one step closer to predicting iceberg calving appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians on Monday as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March.
Scientists buoyed after pledge by mainland Chinese officials that Hongkongers will be able to join future polar research missions.
Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could widen, the polar ice caps are melting, and even some scientists developing artificial intelligence systems are worried about unleashing a monster.
Uranus has more gas than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers found that unlike previous findings that Uranus was made of ice, it's actually composed of 10% methane.
The mayor of the small town of Vadso in the Arctic Circle sent the proposal to the European Commission to 'offer individuals the opportunity to enjoy more quality time' with their families.
A National Geographic film crew was visiting Atka Bay on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf, when they spotted approximately 700 emperor penguin chicks gathering at the edge of a cliff.
ICE agents arrested Kharwin on Feb. 28 in San Antonio, Texas, according to the outlet, but his time in custody was short-lived.
National Geographic/Bertie GregoryFor the first time ever, filmmakers for National Geographic have captured the annual rite of passage many baby penguins take before they embark on their first swim: a daring leap from a towering ice shelf. The astounding new footage shows approximately 700 Emperor penguin chicks gathering precariously at the top of a sheer ice cliff, and one-by-one launching themselves into the icy waters 50-feet below. The footage was captured on location at Atka Bay, in Antarctica, by the BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer Bertie Gregory as part of a upcoming National Geographic production called THE SECRETS OF PENGUINS, which will air in April 2025. Read more at The Daily Beast.
Australia is the only continent free from the highly contagious H5N1 virus, after it was detected in wild bird colonies in Antarctica in February Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community Back yard chicken owners in Australia have been urged to implement biosecurity measures to prevent contact with wild birds in the wake of a global avian influenza outbreak. Australia remains the only continent without HPAI H5 (high pathogenicity avian influenza of subtype H5), after scavenging skua birds on mainland Antartica tested positive for bird flu in February . Symptoms for affected birds include diarrhoea, sneezing, a reduction in egg production and sudden death. Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly...
The carbon price continued its post-auction slump, with weak demand seeing the secondary market trading well below the auction floor.
A Republican-penned bill that passed the state Senate lays out a framework for how Pennsylvania would regulate underground wells that store carbon dioxide.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 8, 28 April 2024.
The Pennsylvania state Senate is advancing legislation aimed at helping the nation’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state attract carbon capture projects
Carbon dioxide emission taxes, prices and markets have been touted as key to stopping global heating. However, carbon markets have failed mainly because they favour the rich and powerful. Market solutions better? Mainstream economists believe the best way to check global heating is to tax greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Equivalent ‘carbon prices’ have been set […]
Chief Executive John Lee praises visit, the vessel’s first to a Chinese port after completing recent polar expedition.
The CEO of Neom – a US$500 billion futuristic, zero-carbon megacity under construction on the country’s northwest coast – is scheduled to host a half-day event on April 19 inviting investors to back the ambitious development.
Researchers discovered 13 new papillomaviruses in Antarctic seals, emphasizing the importance of understanding virome for ecosystem conservation in Antarctica.
According to one economist, the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 0.7 per cent in Saskatchewan in 2023 due to the carbon tax.
In a symbolic yet landmark effort, India Post opened its third post office in the icy continent of Antarctica near the South Pole Monday. India runs research missions in the icy, uninhabited terrain where a floating number of 50-100 scientists work during various months. The new post office was inaugurated at Bharati Station, Antarctica, through web link by K K Sharma.
MOSCOW - The governor of Russia's Arctic region of Murmansk survived a stabbing attack, and investigators said on Friday they had arrested a man with a criminal record who said he committed the assault out of \"dislike\" for the official.
George was aboard an Air Glaciers B3 helicopter when it crashed into the north slope of the Petit Combin mountain, triggering an avalanche before tumbling down the mountainside on Tuesday.
MOSCOW - Russia's Novatek is being forced to scale back its huge Arctic LNG 2 project after Western sanctions curbed its access to ice-class tankers, and will focus instead on developing its project at the ice-free port of Murmansk, industry sources said.
Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror as a government investigation unfolds.
Following the 2024 maximum sea ice extent on March 14, Arctic ice extent has declined slowly such that 2024 March average is the fifteenth lowest in the passive microwave satellite record. The atmospheric circulation pattern for March 2024 featured a strong … Continue reading →
A new 9,000-mile subsea cable in the Arctic could reroute data traffic away from vulnerable choke points.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet with the premiers to talk about carbon price alternatives "without taxes."
The scientific instrument was fixed to the wall of Shackleton's private cabin on the ship R.Y.S Quest - where he died in 1922 during an expedition to the Antarctic.
Traffic is flowing again at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border after police shut down the highway earlier in the day due to a protest against the carbon price increase.
Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey is calling for an emergency meeting of Canada's leaders to talk about alternatives to the carbon price.
The extent of Arctic sea ice may not look as dire right now as in some recent years, but beneath the surface (literally and figuratively), there’s still plenty reason for concern.
A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 24, 2024 thru Sat, March 30, 2024. Story of the week When it comes to polar sea ice appearances can be deceptive, trends may be obvious but the year-by-year evolution of our warming climate is full of noise, and circumstances can change rapidly. That's how our Story of the Week might be synopsized. Carbon Brief's journalist Ayesha Tandon's Antarctic sea ice `behaving strangely` as Arctic reaches `below-average` winter peak updates us on the annual evolution of ice melt and ice advance at each pole of the planet at 2024's vernal equinox. Antarctica's sea ice continues to track at near record low levels, continuing a sharp reversal from...
An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometre ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for three companies to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region.
Your bucket list is about to get even longer, as experts have created a new list of must-visit destinations.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he supports Manitoba's request for an exemption from the federally imposed carbon price.
Open access notables A survey of interventions to actively conserve the frozen North , van Wijngaarden et al., Climatic Change: The frozen elements of the high North are thawing as the region warms much faster than the global mean. The dangers of sea level rise due to melting glacier ice, increased concentrations of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost, and alterations in the key high latitude physical systems spurred many authors, and more recently international agencies and supra-state actors, to investigate “emergency measures” that might help conserve the frozen North. However, the efficacy and feasibility of many of these ideas remains highly uncertain, and some might come with significant risks, or could be even outright dangerous to the ecosystems...
1,500 tonnes of drinking water from Tibet's glaciers donated by China reached Maldives amid water shortage. Decision made during China's chairman's visit. Maldives plans to distribute clean water to various islands.
The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, a new study says.
In a letter to seven premiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that he is open to 'credible' carbon pricing systems that are unique to differing provincial priorities.
Boats had been barred from landing since July 2022 owing to virus, which has ravaged populations of seabirds The puffins started arriving two weeks ago – and now there are thousands of them fizzing around in a mad frenzy. They have joined kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars and shags. Soon Arctic terns will arrive after their epic journey across the world from the Antarctic. This week humans arrived after a two-year ban from the Farne Islands in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most important sanctuaries for breeding seabirds. Continue reading...
Warm weather has left maintainers of the melting ice road recommending against all vehicle travel on the Kuskokwim for now.
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 15.01 million square kilometers (5.80 million square miles) on March 14. The 2024 maximum is the fourteenth lowest in the 46-year satellite record. Overview of conditions On … Continue reading →
Funding will go to recipients in more than 20 states in industrial sector, which is responsible for roughly 25% of US emissions The Biden administration announced a record $6bn in funding Monday to decarbonize US industry facilities including plants that make cement and concrete, iron and steel, and food production plants including ones which make mac and cheese, and ice cream. The industrial sector is responsible for roughly 25% of all the nation’s emissions, and has proven difficult to decarbonize due to its energy-intense, large-scale operations. Constellium in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is going to operate a first-of-its-kind zero-carbon aluminum casting plant and install low-emission furnaces that can use clean fuels such as hydrogen. The company produces aluminum for a range of products...
The vital Munsyari-Milam road, connecting border villages along the Indo-China border, has been rendered impassable by an avalanche in the Chirkani glacier near Mapang in the Munsyari block of Pithoragarh district. Officials suspect the incident happened on Saturday evening. This situation presents challenges for locals who usually migrate to nearly a dozen high-altitude villages in the Johar valley of the district as the summer season begins.
Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.
The fledglings are typically reared on floating platforms of sea ice, but an unprecedented decline in the ice extent has driven young onto cliffs.
Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ice sheet collapse, modelling studies suggest, but we are running out of time
A Saskatchewan teen who suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning while working at his part-time job at a local grocery store may suffer long-term health problems, but the employer faced no serious consequences. A workplace safety expert says many provinces lack the authority to financially penalize employers that risk worker safety.
Green members demand meeting after Scottish government abandons pledge to cut emissions 75% by 2030 Scottish Greens are to hold a vote to determine the future of the party’s power-sharing agreement with the Scottish National party, after the government abandoned its pledge to cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030. Members will be able to vote on whether their party should continue to cooperate with the SNP after the announcement on Thursday that the Scottish government was scrapping its key climate pledge. Continue reading...
Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign with a team of 50 people Standing in the shadow of Iceland’s Snæfellsjökull, – a 700,000-year-old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day – in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought. “It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?” said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Māori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River. Continue reading...
She was 'unsinkable' and 'indestructible' - until she sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. This was the story told by author Morgan Robertson in his 1898 novel. Above: Titanic departing Southampton.
PhD candidate Emma Bullock studies the local and global impacts of changing mineral levels in Arctic groundwater.
Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, water, and carbon […]
Exclusive: By the middle of the century, pollution from plastic industry could ‘undermine world’s effort’ to control climate crisis By the middle of the century, global emissions from plastic production could triple to account for one-fifth of the Earth’s remaining carbon budget, an analysis has found. The stunning new estimates from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published on Wednesday, provide yet more evidence that the plastic industry is “undermining the world’s efforts to address climate change”, said Heather McTeer Toney, executive director of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals campaign, which helped fund the new report. Continue reading...
In ‘acute global embarrassment’, Scottish government expected to follow UK and Wales by adopting five-year carbon budgets The Scottish government is to abandon its “world-leading” goal to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, after repeatedly missing its legally binding targets. Màiri McAllan, the Scottish net zero secretary, is expected to announce that Scotland will instead follow the UK and Welsh government’s lead by adopting five-yearly “carbon budgets”, in a significant policy climbdown. Continue reading...
Observations of Venus taken with the BepiColombo space probe show that our cosmic neighbor is leaking significant amounts of carbon and oxygen from its atmosphere, and researchers can't totally explain why.
UK researchers want to understand what triggers the Antarctic to kick out city-sized blocks of ice.
Scientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. A team of researchers used seismic imaging to map the area … The post New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacier appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Challengers want to overturn a ruling that upheld Interior's leasing freeze in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The recent escalation in tensions, particularly following Iran’s drone offensive, is causing concern among finance ministers and central bank chiefs. The primary impact is expected on oil prices, which surged to $92.2 a barrel, posing risks to global economic stability. In India, while pump prices may not immediately rise due to elections, increased oil prices could strain government subsidies and impact inflation and deficits.
The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people.
A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.
It was a clear, starry sky above the Titanic as it struck an iceberg in the night of April 14, 1912.
Over 120 scientists and operational professionals working for British Antarctic Survey, based in Antarctica and their headquarters in Cambridge, have received a new qualification to help the polar research institute … The post New carbon literacy milestone achieved on journey to net zero appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has said the Arctic oil program inked during the Trump administration contained “legal deficiencies.”
Scott Moe is amongst some of the premiers that are calling for an emergency televised meeting over the carbon tax with the prime minister.
The Post was granted a rare embed with Navy SEALs and Green Berets as the Pentagon, wary of war with Russia or China, stress-tested its Arctic readiness.
Exclusive: Australian Energy Markets Commission set interim value for cutting emissions that should reach $420/t CO-e by 2050 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast New energy market laws should set a carbon price starting at $70 a tonne, rising steadily to six times that by mid-century, according to the agency that sets the nation’s electricity and gas market rules. In a report released without fanfare at the end of March, the Australian Energy Markets Commission (AEMC) set an interim value for cutting emissions, starting at $70 per tonne of carbon dioxide-equivalent in 2024. That price should increase steadily to reach $420/t CO-e by 2050, when Australia aims to reach net zero carbon...
The initial Russian reports say Navalny died of a 'detached blood clot' in a hellhole Arctic prison - dubbed Polar Wolf - where he had been jailed in an act of political repression.
The picture is up for sale at Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneers of Devizes, Wiltshire, for an estimated price of £4,000 to £7,000. It shows a large glacier taken two days after the ship sank.
A new trial of Eutelsat OneWeb at British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station is providing new opportunities for science, and even live broadcasting. The low Earth orbit service was launched … The post New connectivity for Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Xue Long 2 docks at Ocean Terminal and opens to visitors in first visit to Chinese port on return from exploration of Antarctica.
The head of the company’s lower-carbon business outlined plans for the oil and gas giant.
Antarctica's western ice sheet alone contains 138 volcanos.
Researchers want to use the ultrafine rock particles left by eroding glaciers — called “rock flour” — to suck climate-warming carbon from the air.
Two of its glaciers melted by more than 100m last year.
A landmark climate report found that the world's major emitters grew their carbon footprint since the Paris Agreement.
Has bird flu already killed hundreds, if not thousands of penguins in Antarctica?
Wab Kinew is hoping Manitoba will be given an exemption from the federal carbon tax because of the province's clean hydroelectric grid and investments in carbon-reducing programs.
A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric vehicles have helped lower carbon emissions by almost 2 per cent per year within the Bay Area
[The Conversation Africa] A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, the African continent has started emitting more carbon than it stores. When the total amount of carbon that is sequestered by natural ecosystems (such as the soil and plants in grasslands, savannas and forests) exceeds the amount of total carbon emissions within a system, it's referred to as a net sink of carbon. But, the study found, as natural ecosystems are converted for agricultural purposes, the carbon storage capacity is decreasing - while the
They didn't exist a century ago but today PFAS "forever chemicals" contaminate the environment from groundwater to Antarctic snow to turtle eggs, and concern over their possible toxicity is growing.
After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year ahead On Tuesday morning California officials trekked into the mountains to share some exciting and unusual news: the state’s snowpack measurement is just about average. Across the state, the snowpack came in at roughly 110% – a measurement that is exceedingly rare in a changing climate. The fourth survey of the year, conducted at the beginning of April, is considered one of the most crucial. It serves as an indicator for how the state’s water supply will fare through the drier, warmer seasons ahead. The snowpack acts as a water savings account for the state, supplying roughly 30% of California’s water and slowly refilling reservoirs, pumping rivers and streams, and...
Meteorologist says bears were not aggressive but they fired signal gun to scare them away Katarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs at a research station on Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests. Shocked and in awe, the meteorologist immediately alerted her colleagues to the female polar bear and her two cubs peering into the Polish research station in Hornsund , in the south of the Norwegian archipelago, their noses pressed up against the window. Continue reading...
The first year of the Arctic Resilient Communities Youth Fellowship wrapped up in Yellowknife. Two of the ten participants were from the Yukon, while two were from N.W.T. and one from Nunavut.
Ottawa's planned $15-per-tonne increase in the federal consumer carbon price came into effect Monday, bringing the levy to $80 per tonne.
California has an above-average snowpack and the state's reservoirs are mostly filled, bringing a substantial boost to water supplies.
The Liberal government's planned carbon price hike has been met with contention from premiers, mainly regarding worries about putting additional financial strain on Canadians.
Gen, David Petraeus on the role of the United States and Canada in trying to quell global violence, and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault on the carbon price increase.
TORONTO - An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometer (250-mile) ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for Rio Tinto, Burgundy Mines , and De Beers to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region.
Ice Drive in Lapland with the Audi RS4 Avant on a frozen lake near the Arctic Circle offered a thrilling experience with ice drifting, challenging tracks, and a timed lap competition, creating memorable moments and enhancing driving skills in extreme conditions.
When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisis When Ukraine’s Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on 28 January 2022, it passed Russian warships in the Black Sea. A month later, Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Noosfera has not been back since. “A few weeks later, and Noosfera would have been an important symbolic target for Russia,” said Vadym Tkachenko, a biologist who recently completed his second Antarctic winter at Ukraine’s Vernadsky base. The ship now supplies both Ukrainian and Polish Antarctic bases from Chile and South Africa twice a year, at the start and end of the winter. Continue reading...
Today, the state of Washington took a big step toward linking its cap-and-invest program with the carbon markets in California and Quebec, a move that could boost climate action and create a more stable, more predictable market for all. Governor Inslee signed E2SB 6058 into law, which will further align Washington’s program with the joint […]
Melting polar ice could affect the timing of the planet's next "leap second."
A team of about 40 scientists pulled deep-ocean sediment samples out of the most remote region of the Southern Ocean - discovering how a vortex melts Antarctic ice
GettyA couple in their 70s won a lawsuit against a cruise operator after they successfully argued the company was in the wrong to cancel their Arctic cruise over cold weather without returning their money.The couple said they were suing because their cruise of a lifetime, billed as a voyage through the “Northwest Passage—in the Wake of the Great Explorers,” was hardly that. Instead of sailing through the treacherous waters of Arctic Canada, the couple said they mostly just cruised the coast of Greenland, with some time at Baffin Island. The cruise operator, Reader Offers, offered apologies and cited abnormally cold weather and ice as the reason the trip couldn’t go on as planned but offered no compensation for the letdown. Read more at The Daily Beast.
Adventurers Nicholas Sherman, 76, and wife Rosemary, 75, have spent their later years travelling, ticking off Antarctica, Canada and India as they made their way around the world.
Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking "ozone spike" and could impact global weather patterns.
Asymptomatic cases may seem reassuring for the penguins, but scientists fear they could act as ‘Trojan horses’ for other species Adélie penguins in Antarctica are testing positive for bird flu without showing outward signs of disease, according to researchers who travelled around 13 remote breeding sites on an ice-breaking cruise ship. Since bird flu arrived in the region this year , there have been concerns about the virus reaching the Antarctic’s fragile penguin populations. In November last year, researchers warned in a pre-print research paper that if the virus caused mass mortality in these colonies, “it could signal one of the largest ecological disasters of modern times”. Continue reading...
Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The recurring loss hints at a long-term shift in conditions in the Southern Ocean, likely resulting from global climate change, according […]
The carbon price has increased slightly from an eight-month low on Wednesday, following the government’s Emissions Trading Scheme auction, but is still trading well below the auction floor.