Recent events of ice melt in West Antarctica are concerning as these events indicate potential surface melt of ice shelves and their consequent collapse. A recent study by European researchers…
Climate change is one of the most urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century. Although the consequences can be observed all over the world, it is in the polar regions…
Updated: 15 Aug. 2019 Increasing climatic variation is leading to changes in ecosystems in the Bering Sea. The persistence of marine heat waves, i.e. prolonged periods of elevated sea surface…
Antarctica is a continent located in the South Pole and has been surrounded by a circumpolar current for over 40 million years. This barrier keeps warmer waters and non native…
One of the causes of the Antarctic melting is climate change, although the specific mechanism is not well known. In 2002, the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf took…
Updated: 2 Apr. 2019 Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Arctic are known to avoid ice, only migrating from North Atlantic waters up to the Arctic ocean in the summer,…
Earth observation from space is a fundamental part of the second Copernicus revolution. During the first Copernicus revolution, Man has given up its egocentrism to assume he’s just an improbable…
The traditional vision portrayed Antarctica as a continent with low biodiversity and limited by a hostile environment. However, biodiversity studies over the last few years have shown that life in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is…
Climate change leads to poleward movements of marine species. The Arctic is more sensitive to these changes due to the twice as fast increasing in air temperatures compared to the…
In the past few years we have witnessed a set of changes in the planet’s climate, with a particular emphasis in the Arctic region. The increase in average temperatures unleashed the…