We discuss these findings within the context of ecosystem level changes currently observed and predicted for the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Between April and September 2019, we maintained juvenile ...

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Underwater footage released on June 9 shows the devastating impact of ship anchors on marine life and the ocean floor in the ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

Ice cores collected from polar ice sheets at Site M, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica (Lat 75.00 S, Long 15.00 E), and Holtedahlfonna, Svalbard (Lat 79.13 N, Long 13.27 E), were analyzed for a net ...

Antarctica's wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

Ten of thousands of penguins, clustered together on the Antarctic Peninsula, can produce some potent stenches. Now, scientists have found that all that waste could be powerful enough to cool the ...

WORTHINGTON — The mild winter brought an abundance of filamentous algae growth to Lake Okabena in Worthington. Dan Livdahl, Okabena-Ocheda Watershed District Administrator, suspects the algae growth ...

Kelp forests, once a towering and life-filled part of many temperate coastlines, are vanishing fast. In their place, low-growing mats of turf algae are taking over. This shift isn’t just cosmetic.

West Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier is melting. That is worrisome, because buried deep in its ice lie vital clues to past climate conditions. But there’s another reason, given the destructive rises in ...

Water sample testing is underway to determine if blue-green algae is in Lake Crago. State health officials said blue-green algae may be present by the boat ramp near the recreational center. The ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...