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333 Minke Whales Killed by Japanese Fleet

333 Minke Whales Killed by Japanese Fleet

Japan’s whaling vessels returned to port with 333 minke whales on Friday after its months-long Antarctic hunt. The Fisheries Ministry said the whales were killed in the name of science. “The purpose of this research is to carry out a detailed calculation of the catch limit of minke whales and study the structure and dynamics […]

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    Earth on Pace for Its Warmest Year on Record

    Earth on Pace for Its Warmest Year on Record

    By Jeff Masters November 2016 was Earth’s fifth warmest November since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information on Monday. November 2016 was 0.7 C (1.31 F) warmer than the 20th-century November average, but 0.23 C (0.41 F) cooler than the record warmth of 2015. NASA reported that November 2016 […]

    What Would Happen if the Entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapsed?

    What Would Happen if the Entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapsed?

    By Tim Radford Scientists in the U.S. have identified an ominous trend in the Southern Ocean—the creation of enormous icebergs as rifts develop in the shelf ice many miles inland. Stunning @NASA photos show huge crack in Antarctic ice shelf​ https://t.co/OpmzWnw8lT via @EcoWatch #climate #divest pic.twitter.com/cqK1Cwnivk — climatehawk1 (@climatehawk1) December 16, 2016 And although three […]

    Stunning Photos Show Huge Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf

    Stunning Photos Show Huge Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf

    NASA has just released new aerial photographs that show, close-up, an immense, 70-mile long rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. The breach is 300 feet wide and one-third of a mile deep. As it grows, an iceberg the size of Delaware will break off. Operation Icebridge, in its eighth year of conducting […]

    Polar Sea Ice the Size of India Vanishes in Record Heat, Scientists Say

    Polar Sea Ice the Size of India Vanishes in Record Heat, Scientists Say

    The sea ice covering Earth’s two poles are at record lows amidst exceptionally warm global temperatures. The eight panels show the November sea ice extent in the Arctic roughly every five years since 1978, when satellites started monitoring sea ice.NASA Earth Observatory Citing satellite measurements from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), […]

    John Kerry Visits Antarctica, Vows to Do ‘Everything Possible’ to Prevent Trump From Dismantling Paris Agreement

    John Kerry Visits Antarctica, Vows to Do ‘Everything Possible’ to Prevent Trump From Dismantling Paris Agreement

    U.S. Sec. of State John Kerry, while speaking in New Zealand Nov. 13, vowed to do “everything possible” to prevent president-elect Donald Trump from pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. #Trump Plans to Quit Paris Deal, Hires #Climate Denier for EPA Transition Team @EcoWatch https://t.co/b5ZlNbdHxs @350 @foe_us @Greenpeace — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) November […]

    My Month-Long Voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula

    My Month-Long Voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula

    By Ryan Dolan In August, I embarked on a journey that very few people will ever experience. Leaving the U.S. and a sultry summer behind, I traveled south almost as far as you can go, to the bottom of the world. At the southern tip of Chile, I boarded the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a U.S. […]

    World’s Largest Marine Reserve Created Off the Coast of Antarctica

    World’s Largest Marine Reserve Created Off the Coast of Antarctica

    Today, the largest marine protected area in the world was created in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. This is a huge victory for the whales, penguins and toothfish that live there and for the millions of people standing up to protect our oceans. A group of Adeli Penguins are seen here in […]

    Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Melting Rapidly as Ocean Waters Warm

    Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Melting Rapidly as Ocean Waters Warm

    Three glaciers in West Antarctica have undergone “intense unbalanced melting,” risking their stability and further acceleration of sea level rise. New research published in Nature Communications found that the Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers in the Amundsen Sea embayment collectively lost about 1,000 feet of ice from 2002 to 2009. Map of flow speeds at […]