It's a really good thing I don't have room or money (or need) for this... 1986 Hagglund up for auction down the street. "Hansel". Picture from below at McMurdo Station is the sister of Hansel, "Gretel", somewhere roaming around Antarctica. #Antarctica
National Science Foundation: "U.S. Antarctic Program participants stand next to a Hagglund, a tracked vehicle generally used by science teams and support personnel to access the sea ice near McMurdo Station." Photographer: Elizabeth Mockbee. #Hansel#antarctica
The tail of a whale - one of two humpback whales that we came across whilst cruising in our Zodiac at Meusnier point around the Antarctica peninsular. They were in a feeding frenzy having come across a krilling field. Apparently the tails have fingerprint like capability enabling them to be uniquely identified.😍 😎 😜 #photography#travel#nature#antarctica#whale#humor#humour#identity
"There is now a real danger that some significant #SeaLevelRise will occur in the next few decades as the ice sheets and glaciers of west #Antarctica continue to shrink. These are being eroded at their bases by warming ocean water and could disintegrate in a few decades."
“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.”
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the...
Discussing some work on sea ice and coastal polynyas in #Antarctica with colleague and stumbled on this frankly glorious image from @esaclimate#Sentinel2 on 22nd March this year. So much going on in this picture from #ShackletonIceShelf in East Antarctica.
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the...
‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists (www.theguardian.com)
When the team at Vernadsky base are not back defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisis