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"Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record - Carbon Brief
Antarctic sea ice has recorded its third-smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals.

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island #Antarctic

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island
Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University.

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record #Antarctic

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record
Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet's southern pole.

Interesting piece in Nature last week about Antarctic research infrastructure. China has just opened it's fifth station, as the US retreats from science in general, and especially polar research. Many countries in Europe are also rather weakly present in the Antarctic, and there is no common EU programme.
In Denmark, we haven't even ratified the Madrid protocols for environmental protection of Antarctica, never mind signed the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the actually rather strong Danish input to Antarctic research in general - much of which is driven by the fact that our future sea level rise will be largely determined by what happens in the Antarctic.
#Antarctica #PolarREsearch #ArcticScience #PolarScience
Edit: broken link, apologies, try this
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02157-x

My @… colleague Alex Hayward recently published an alarming paper on how @… satellite data can detect changes in #Antarctic ecosystems.
They just published this nice piece on it.
QT from BlueSky
"Antarctica's tiniest climate witnesses are changing 🦠
Climate is reshaping Antarctic phytoplankton, impacting carbon storage and the marine food chain. 25 years of ESA Climate Change Initiative satellite data paired with 14,000 in-situ samples reveal how."
https://climate.esa.int/en/news-events/shift-in-Antarctic-plankton/

"Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island
Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University.

Why the East Antarctic interior is warming faster and earlier than its coastal areas #Antarctic

Why the East Antarctic interior is warming faster and earlier than its coastal areas
Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica's interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause. A 30-year study, published in Nature Communications and led by Nagoya University's Naoyuki Kurita, has traced this warming to increased warm air flow triggered by temperature changes in the Southern Indian Ocean.