We are the world’s only publicly-supported nonprofit research program monitoring the vastly warmed Antarctic Peninsula.
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We are excited to announce that our newest e-book is now available for download! Ron Camps With Penguins in Antarctica is perfect for anyone to read, educate and enjoy. Click this link or visit our website to get your FREE copy today! bit.ly/3l7TiYe
Check out “My Penguin Friend” — in theaters only on August 16, the extraordinary story of DinDim the Penguin. A ‘must see’ for all of us penguin-o-philes:
mypenguinfriend.com/home/
The Sexy Science of Penguin Counting
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"Oceanites has been visiting Antarctica and counting penguins for 30 years, sharing the reality of climate change through the lens of penguin population dynamics." cesium.com/blog/2023/04/11/o…
Dramatic #climate changes in #Antarctica: "The potential impacts of a slowing and warming Antarctic current could be dramatic, even impeding the flow of the Gulf Stream and rendering Arctic conditions to northern Europe." al.com/news/2023/04/uab-scie… @JiminAntarctica
On #WorldPenguinDay check out this new video about @Oceanites work on the impacts of #climatechange on penguin populations in #Antarctica. youtube.com/watch?v=93BdHmND… @GWtweets
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#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 6th lowest on record (JAXA data).
• about 200,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 640,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,130,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-…
ALT Line graph time series of 2023's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with white for the 1980s, green for the 1990s, blue for the 2000s, and purple for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2002 to 2022. 2023 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between March and May.
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Was this the year Antarctic sea ice started its inevitable long-term decline? insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
French court orders fishing bans to protect dolphins phys.org/news/2023-03-french… via @physorg_com
"Globally, February 2023 set a record for the lowest February sea ice extent (coverage) on record. Antarctic sea ice extent ranked lowest on record at 460,000 square miles below the 1991-2020 average" noaa.gov/news/february-2023-…
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After decades of talks UN agrees to protect biodiversity in the high seas: “Comprehensive protection of endangered species and habitats is now finally possible on more than 40 percent of the Earth’s surface.”@pxwhittle @larsonchristina @AP pbs.org/newshour/world/un-me…
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At the start of February I went to #Antarctica with @Oceanites to collect important #penguin data. We visited Chinstrap colonies on the Tetrad Islands carrying out counts & #dronesurveys. Check out my @CesiumJS story board for info & 3D models I created
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In #Antarctica, sea ice melt has accelerated in the past decade: "melting of the Antarctic ice sheet... will continue to contribute to sea level rise for a long time, which will test the adaptive capacity of humanity." theconversation.com/the-anta… @LaConvCA #StandWithPenguins
Study: #Antarctic Peninsula's glaciers melting faster in warmer summer months. “The Antarctic Peninsula has seen some of the most rapid warming of any region on Earth." esa.int/Applications/Observi… @esa
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Stronger El Niños could increase Antarctica melting and have a “double whammy” effect "worsening extreme weather – heat, drought and bushfire risk in eastern Australia and floods in California, Peru and Chile – and accelerate sea level rise."
theguardian.com/environment/… @adamlmorton
Oceanites retweeted
3/3 With three extreme sea-ice loss events in the last six years, a regime shift is under way in the Southern Ocean. What does this mean for food webs and ice shelf stability? We’re here to find out.
⚠️ Read more at aappartnership.org.au/deep-f…
📸 minke whale in sea ice, Patti Virtue
ALT minke whale surfaces to breathe through sea ice