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Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dwindling Antarctic sea ice is driving more storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting

The Economist

Science & technology | Out of sight, out of mind Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting The world must pay more attention to its southern pole Your browser does not support this video. Antarctic ice-sheet mass change, 2002-23 -6 -4 -2 0 2 Tonnes per square metre 60°S SOUTHERN OCEAN 500 km Larsen A and B ice shelves, collapsed in …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Federal government formally declares Southern Ocean offshore wind zone

ABC

In short: A 1,030-square-kilometre zone has been declared for the Southern Ocean Wind Zone off the coast of Warrnambool and Port Fairy. The federal government's official declaration of Australia's third offshore wind zone has received mixed responses from local community groups and authorities in western Victoria. Gunditjmara woman and founder of the Southern Ocean Protection Embassy Collective Yaraan Couzens Bundle …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Busy summer predicted for Kangaroo Island tourism, three years after catastrophic bushfires

ABC

Three years after being devastated by bushfires, Kangaroo Island's tourism operators are continuing to bounce back, with predictions of a busy summer season ahead. Key points: Luxury tourism venue Southern Ocean Lodge is expected to reopen in December, after it was reduced to rubble in bushfire more than three years ago A new visitor information centre at Flinders Chase National …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Antarctica’s heart of ice has skipped a beat. Time to take our medicine

The Hindu

The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. And just as a change in our heartbeat affects our whole body, a change to sea ice around Antarctica affects the whole world. During autumn and winter, the surface of the ocean freezes as sea ice advances northwards, and then in the spring, the ice melts as …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Summer snow to bring lowest February temperatures in 18 years

ABC

Early February is still the height of summer but a polar air mass currently on a journey north across the Southern Ocean is about to drop temperatures to their lowest February levels in nearly two decades. A rare wintry day in February Temperatures are already dropping below average across southern states as the first of two fronts brings cool Southern …

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2 years, 4 months ago

History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds

LA Times

After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated. In the process of trying to figure out how much DDT was dumped into the deep ocean, …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Southern Ocean Lodge rebuild on Kangaroo Island starts two years after devastating bushfire

ABC

Soon after sheltering in a bunker while the luxury Southern Ocean Lodge burnt to the ground above him, manager John Hird says he knew they had to rebuild. Key points: The Southern Ocean Lodge was destroyed in a bushfire in January 2020 Staff hid in a bunker as the flames swept through Work has started to rebuild it largely the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Officially Recognised as World's Fifth Ocean by Nat Geo Cartographers

News 18

It’s time to update your atlas as a new ocean has been identified on Earth. From four, the count of Earth’s total oceans has increased to five as the National Geographic cartographers have recognised Antarctica’s Southern Ocean on their maps. Since scientists and the members of the press have acknowledged the rapid Antarctic Circumpolar Current as distinct from all the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the world. Here's why

Hindustan Times

Human civilisation and agriculture first emerged about 12,000 years ago in the early Holocene. Effects of Arctic warming One of the most significant effects of Arctic amplification is the weakening of west-to-east jet streams in the northern hemisphere. The links between Arctic amplification, slowing jet streams, blocking highs and extreme weather events in the mid to high latitudes of the …

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4 years ago

Ocean like no other: Southern Ocean’s rich ecology, significance for global climate

Firstpost

Every expedition reveals new species, some of which are potentially commercially valuable, and all of which are important parts of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Here the ocean plays another crucial role in the global climate system by bringing relatively warm — and warming — Circumpolar Deep Water into contact with the ice fringing Antarctica. Annual thaw and freeze of sea …

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