With location regulations no longer in force, fishing boats are harvesting thousands of tons of krill from very few areas, increasing competition with penguins, seals, whales and other marine life.
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For 200 years, a small number of countries have exploited the marine wildlife of Antarctica, often with devastating impact on their populations.
More than 280 women in STEMM call for a marine protected area to be established in the waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been one of the fastest changing places on Earth, warming more than three times quicker than the rest of the world.
How sea water circulates underneath Antarctic ice shelves is a vital missing link in climate change projections.
Preliminary results of a study have shown microplastics have reached in a newly revealed Antarctic environment.
Since 1995, several ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula have abruptly disintegrated. A new analysis suggests that these events are triggered when ice shelves lose their buffer of floating ice.
A huge iceberg is set to break free from Antarctica. While the iceberg isn’t hugely concerning, it could herald the breakup of the entire Larsen C ice shelf, which could trigger more sea-level rise.
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Leader, Sea Ice Section, Antarctic Climate Program, Australian Antarctic Division
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Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology, Bangor University
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of West Florida
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Exeter
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, The University of Melbourne
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Data Interpretation Ecologist, British Antarctic Survey
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Associate Professor in Environmental History, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral research fellow at Sorbonne University and University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
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Senior Research Fellow in Antarctic and island conservation science, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder