2024年10月4日 · Antarctica has experienced significant increases in temperature over the past 60 years 1, with rates of warming highest in the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula (AP) regions 2 and...

2018年6月14日 · Antarctica, the most remote region on Earth, is intimately coupled to the rest of the climate system. Atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections communicate climate variations at low latitude to...

2022年8月10日 · The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth’s glacier ice (about 52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming than...

Twenty years ago this month, a large group of researchers reported the first results from the European Project for Ice Coring in Ant-arctica (EPICA). This was an ambitious bid to archive...

Less than 1% of Antarctica currently contains habitable conditions suitable for supporting the growth of land- and snow-based photosynthetic life. These areas, consisting of seasonally ice-free terrain and coastal snowpacks, are home to some of the most resilient organisms on the planet, including mosses, lichens, algae and cyanobacteria.

2024年10月4日 · Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, new research shows, sparking concerns about the changing landscape on this vast...

2024年12月1日 · The white, monochromatic vistas of Antarctica, a continent practically synonymous with ice, are becoming more verdant—at least around some of its edges. According to an analysis of 35 years of observations from Landsat satellites, the amount of vegetated land on the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold since 1986.

5 天之前 · The classification aligns with the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Global Ecosystem Typology, placing Antarctica in a global context and highlighting the continent's ...

2024年12月24日 · This Special Issue on Rights of Nature and the Antarctic aims to advance the scholarly discussion on Antarctic RoN. The authors discuss the concept of RoN and its relevance for the Antarctic, the interconnections between RoN and the recognition of Antarctica’s intrinsic value in the ATS, the question of who has rights or should be granted ...

2024年12月30日 · According to an October 2024 study published in Nature Geoscience, vegetation is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning its edges into a verdant landscape worthy of plein air painting.