... Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, stretching north to within 640 miles of ...
Scientists have long established that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. Now, new research using detailed satellite data indicates that the changing climate is ...
... tomorrow in the journal Science, Martin Montes-Hugo and Oscar Schofield report that levels of phytoplankton off the western Antarctic Peninsula have decreased 12 percent over the past 30 years...
... much warming will occur in Antarctica,” he says.
“Most people are convinced that the warming along the Antarctic Peninsula is due to human influences, but the question is how far south that warming ...
... because they are sandwiched by extraordinarily raising surface air temperatures and a warming ocean.
The Antarctic Peninsula has experienced extraordinary warming in the past 50 years of 2.5°C, ...
... confirmed a trend suspected by some climate scientists.
"Everyone knows it has been warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, where there are lots of weather stations collecting data," said Eric Steig, a ...
... invaders. When ships dump their ballast water in the Antarctic seas, marine larvae from as far away ... marine fossils at Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula. Linda Ivany of Syracuse University ...
... loss of Arctic sea ice, Antarctic sea ice has increased by a small amount as a result ... Antarctica. Sea ice has been lost to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula – a region that has warmed by almost 3 ...
A huge iceshelf that has wrenched away from the Antarctic peninsula has started to fracture into icebergs, the European Space Agency (ESA) here said on Tuesday.
... of climate warming and loss of ice as large and regionally synchronous as that we are now witnessing in the Antarctic Peninsula," says team member Dr Steve Bohaty of the National Oceanography Centre, ...
A large ice chunk broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula, satellite images show—the first documented instance of a winter breakup.
... the population in the 1970s.
The number of Adélie and Chinstrap penguins living on the Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of the continent, has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1970s. ...
... Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years. ...
A new fracture in the Antarctic Peninsula's Wilkins ice shelf may signal the upcoming collapse of the entire shelf, new satellite images show.
... from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) show how the rate of iceberg scouring on the West Antarctic Peninsula seabed is affected by the duration of winter sea ice, which has dramatically declined (in ...
