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Abandoning Antarctic krill management measure threatens conservation progress (commentary)
13 Oct 2025 14:26 GMT
… krill availability during key breeding, calving or feeding periods. This region … climate change has reduced Antarctic sea-ice abruptly and is already shrinking … Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on Deception Island, Antarctica. Image courtesy of Jay …
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World's largest iceberg A23a may vanish by late 2025
07 Oct 2025 16:37 GMT
… years after calving from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica, A23a – once … the largest and longest-lasting iceberg … 2020, the iceberg began drifting northward due to ice melt and other processes …
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Image of the day: Thwaites Glacier retreat in Antarctica
07 Oct 2025 10:29 GMT
… not only by surface melting but also by tidal … , supporting precise tracking of calving events and changes in glacier … tipping point for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The Copernicus Sentinel- … long-term record of ice movement and melt patterns.
Featured image …
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Scientists placed a 6-mile fiber-optic cable in front of a glacier and recorded 56,000 icebergs breaking off
23 Sep 2025 12:21 GMT
… stadium-sized iceberg plunks into the water.
All this glacial calving impacts … as cracks formed in glacial ice. Sounds associated with the cracking … can improve glacial calving models, which often underestimate the melt that occurs …
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A Fiber-Optic Cable Eavesdrops on a Calving Glacier
22 Sep 2025 17:55 GMT
… stadium-sized iceberg plunks into the water.
All this glacial calving impacts … as cracks formed in glacial ice. Sounds associated with the cracking … can improve glacial calving models, which often underestimate the melt that occurs …
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NASA satellites spot new island in Alaska formed by melting glacier
19 Sep 2025 09:31 GMT
… emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small mountain … Grand Plateau Glacier. As both ice masses receded further, they created … more prone to calving, when large sections of ice break away into …
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Seven-year-old Simmental cow Kersknowe Ice Cube has her 5th set of twins
16 Sep 2025 10:51 GMT
… year old Simmental cow Kersknowe Ice Cube, from the noted … Another Simmental ‘Super Mum’, Kersknowe Ice Cube has reared all of … remarkable in itself, Kersknowe Ice Cube does highlight what is … terms of prolificacy; regular, easy calving year on year; oceans of …
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Ice shelf collapse reveals early warning signs of melt
15 Sep 2025 12:27 GMT
… collapse of an ice shelf on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, called the … below, called basal melting, ice loss due to more melt from the glacier … process known as calving. During this stage, calving resulted in a net …
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NASA satellites spot brand-new island in Alaska formed by melting glacier (photos)
14 Sep 2025 16:01 GMT
… emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small … around 1999, when both ice masses had receded further, … more prone to calving, when large chunks of ice break off … decades. Expanding lakes, unstable ice fronts and newly exposed terrain …
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Everyone Wants to Go to Antarctica. Here’s Why You Should Sail to This Fjord-Filled Subpolar Region Instead
13 Sep 2025 00:45 GMT
… beyond the icy wilds of Antarctica, the picturesque settlements in … to the sea, casting off icebergs into the turquoise water. … to the thunderous roar of ice calving off a glacier.
Guests have … , looming glaciers, and slick icebergs, all set to the backdrop …