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Sea ice blocks mission to Larsen C Ice Shelf

Heavy sea ice has prevented an international team of scientists from reaching the area where the massive “A68” iceberg broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. When the iceberg calved it exposed parts of the seabed never accessible before due to the vast covering of ice. The team, from nine European institutions, […]

King penguins at risk from climate change

With their bright yellow markings on the head and chest, King penguins are an iconic species of the sub-Antaractic islands in the Southern Ocean. But recent research shows that these much-loved birds are at risk from climate change. The Southern Ocean’s Antaractic Polar Front is moving south, taking with it the abundant food supplies that […]

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A clearer picture of Antarctic ice loss

New techniques developed by NASA are enabling scientists to calculate ice flow into the sea in greater detail than ever before.  And there are some dramatic results: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing ice at an accelerating rate probably due to ocean warming. However, flow into the sea from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet […]

Recensement de particules de plastique dans l’Océan Austral

Des chercheurs belges sont partis ce mercredi vers le détroit de Gerlache, dans la Péninsule Antarctique,  où ils vont étudier la biodiversité marine. Ils vont aussi recenser les particules de plastique dans l’Océan Austral, considéré, jusqu’il y a peu, comme relativement préservé par la pollution. Read more.

Ceci n’est pas un dauphin

Gauthier Chapelle, Yvan Beck et José Javier Paniagua: trois hommes unis pour la cause animale, à commencer par les dauphins, lors d’une soirée “Enlivrons-nous” à Uccle le 5 février, à laquelle j’ai eu la chance de participer. Quel rapport avec l’Antarctique? Les dauphins sillonnent les mers, l’océan austral ne fait pas exception. Il en existe même […]

Celia Sapart, a scientist and her blog

Celia Sapart est climatologue et glaciologue. Elle relate en français et en anglais sur son blog jalonné d’anecdotes https://antarcticoceanexperience2017.blogspot.be/ ses passionnantes aventures antarctiques, magnifiques images à l’appui. Entre les éblouissants paysages de la vidéo et le Journal de Bord, c’est comme si vous y étiez. Celia Sapart is a climatologist and a glaciologist. In her blog which […]

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Fossil forest found in Antarctica

Researching in Antarctica, geologists Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have discovered fossils of trees that existed before the age of the dinosaurs. These ancient trees (alive over 260 million years ago) must have been very different to those we are familiar with today. They would have had to survive the […]