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A humpback whale fluke.

Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules

Francesco De Augustinis 4 Nov 2025
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025
A waddle of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on Deception Island, Antarctica. Image courtesy of Jay Williams / WWF.

Abandoning Antarctic krill management measure threatens conservation progress (commentary)

Andrea Capurro / Mary-Anne Lea 13 Oct 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025
A humpback whale fluke.

Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down after record catch triggers unprecedented early closure

Associated Press 5 Aug 2025

Power poop saves the day (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 5 Aug 2025
King penguin in Antarctica. Photo by N Butler / Mongabay

Antarctic coalition wins €1m prize for safeguarding a fragile frontier

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2025

Microplastics and melting ice reveal deepening crisis in Antarctica

Soledad Domínguez 16 Jun 2025
Adélie penguins on Cape Hallet, Antarctica. Image by Andrew Mandemaker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

Penguin poop helps form clouds over Antarctica, potentially cooling it

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jun 2025
Scientists on a British Antarctic Survey ship measure the conditions of the ACC. Image courtesy of Michael Meredith.

Melting Antarctic ice could weaken world’s strongest ocean current, study warns

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025

Huge iceberg breaks from Antarctica, revealing a rich seafloor ecosystem

Bobby Bascomb 28 Mar 2025

Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

Fishing boats spotted competing with whales in Antarctica for krill

Bobby Bascomb 21 Jan 2025
Weddell seals live in Antarctica. They communicate via chirps and trills. Image credit: ELG21 from Pixabay

Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in art-science collaboration

Jasmin Galvan 6 Dec 2024
Antarctic krill swim in swarms of billions. Credit: Aker BioMarine, Pew

Antarctic krill store massive amounts of carbon in the deep ocean, researchers find

Farah Aziz Annesha 29 Nov 2024
Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata)

More krill fishing and no new protected areas for Antarctic seas after latest talks

Francesco De Augustinis 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024

Climate change is turning Antarctica green, but not in a good way: study

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2024
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
An ice shelf and the sea in Greenland.

High-resolution maps reveal surprises about how ice shelves melt

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Aug 2024
A multilayered lenticular cloud hovers near Mount Discovery, a volcano about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

Elizabeth Devitt 27 May 2024
Humpback whales.

Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Mar 2024
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023

‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2023

Scientists: Fishing boats compete with whales and penguins for Antarctic krill

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Jul 2023
A penguin.

Antarctic warming alters atmosphere, ice shelves, ocean & animals

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023

Negotiations to conserve Antarctic Ocean end in stalemate on many issues

Francesco De Augustinis 7 Nov 2022
Adelie penguins hunting the Southern Ocean. Image courtesy of John Weller.

To protect the Southern Ocean, leaders must act now (commentary)

Dona Bertarelli 24 Oct 2022
Penguins in the Antarctic.

Fish-feed industry turns to krill, with unknown effects on the Antarctic ecosystem

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Oct 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022

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