The sea ice around #Antarctica is reaching a record low by a wide margin!

🔴 There is about 2.6 million square kilometers of Antarctic sea ice loss
🟠 It can slow the Earth’s deep-ocean conveyor belt
🟡 This could also affect marine life at depth

#climate
#climateActionNow
#climateChange

Thanks FT for covering prominently the unprecedented extreme events in Antarctica.
#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Antarctica #Antarctic #climateaction #climateactionnow

"We're talking about sea ice, which is frozen seawater, that — and that ice grows every year from the periphery of #Antarctica outwards.

That growth of that sea ice is so massive, it doubles the size of the continent every single year.
But the problem is, is that, this year and last year, ... that ice has not been growing nearly as quickly. ...
It is a marked difference. That is roughly the size of Alaska that is missing ice now in the Southern Ocean."

#ClimateChange

https://is.gd/Cm5PEn

The news of Antarctic sea ice melting are hitting me hard today. Let's say "sea ice" was my special interest for a long time.

I studied sea ice on my PhD, and the beauty of the ice was one of the things that kept me going. Sea ice is so beautiful.

I have a bittersweet relationship with the topic because academia was an unfriendly environment for me. Plus the cognitive dissonance of contributing to climate change while studying Arctic ice. So I stopped working /thinking about it

Now the Antarctic sea ice is melting, people are talking about it, and it is bringing me memories of when the Arctic ice started going haywire 15 years ago. This morning I could not hold it anymore. It's so painful. Such a beautiful thing going away.

I have so much grieving to do here.

I plead for #ClimateAction

#Antarctica
#SeaIce
#ClimateDiary
#grief

RT Environmental Audit Committee
Our Polar Research Sub-Committee has today launched an inquiry on ‘The UK and the Antarctic Environment’, examining the environmental impacts of climate change in #Antarctica.
📩Submit your written evidence by 5pm on Friday 15 September 2023
🔎More info: http://bit.ly/44TZCrD

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CommonsEAC/status/1683392070633902080

#climate #climatechange #climatewarming Meltwater is hydro-fracking #Greenland’s #ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure. Melting is faster than earlier known, also in #Antarctica, because of reasons, we first now start to understand. #TheConversation https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468

🚨 Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:10km) in Antarctica 14/11/2020 01:33 UTC, No people within 100km.

On 11/14/2020 1:33:15 AM, an earthquake occurred in Antarctica potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:10km.

More details: http://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=EQ&eventid=1243674

#earthquake #Antarctica

🚨 Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:10km) in Antarctica 14/11/2020 01:33 UTC, No people within 100km.

On 11/14/2020 1:33:15 AM, an earthquake occurred in Antarctica potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:10km.

More details: http://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=EQ&eventid=1243674

#earthquake #Antarctica

Eine kleine Abkühlung für euch!
#eisberg #antarktis #Antarctica #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #silentsunday

@eseilt @matthewbdaly @eaterofsnacks @cstross

We don't need him. Let him go be #kingly in #Antarctica or something. He can experience not being at the top of the pile for the first time in his life, as I think the #Emperor #Penguins outrank him.

Zum #meermittwoch mal etwas Abkühlung!
Paradise Bay, Antarktische Halbinsel, Januar 2023

#meer #Antarctica #Antarktis #Eis #landschaft #landscapephotography

#ImageOfTheDay

According to @CopernicusECMWF, May 2023 was the 2nd warmest May globally

➡️Tº 🌡️ anomalies reached peaks of +10ºC in #Canada 🇨🇦 and in #Antarctica 🇦🇶

⬇️Surface Air Temperature Anomaly for May 2023 retrieved from #CopernicusClimate Change Service data

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/defis_eu/status/1667805867989762048

Our latest Wilson's #stormpetrel study is out now in #Polar #Biology! Two colonies on King George Island, #Antarctica appear to have crashed in the last 40 years, showing a 90% (!!) decrease in adult numbers and nests. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03154-4 @wojczulanis13

RT @CopernicusEU: On 23 January, an iceberg 5 times the size of Malta calved in #Antarctica🇦🇶

#Copernicus #Sentinel1🇪🇺🛰️ captured #A81 on 16 May after it travelled around 400 km across the #WeddellSea

The iceberg is now only 1.3 km away from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf https://t.co/rBLqlOL9Aq

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1658848765992742916

RT @i_ameztoy: And this is how it moves 🧊 🧊 8 years in 8 seconds, Pine Island Glacier 2015-2023.

One of the largest ice streams in #Antarctica and fastest melting glacier via 87 @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 🛰️ https://t.co/hTm20aJVi9 https://t.co/xEBRX7suhe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ScienceHub/status/1653456828968124422

Three months ago, iceberg #A81 broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in #Antarctica 🇦🇶

Recently, #Copernicus #Sentinel1🇪🇺🛰️ observed the iceberg 300 km away from its starting point (in red) ❗️

⬇️This mosaic of images was made with radar acquisitions between 16 and 17 April 2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1653314965963407361

A comprehensive and large dataset in the journal @scientificdata (11 Apr. 2023, vol. 10, art. 200) covers records of 1204 introduced and #invasive alien species (terrestrial and freshwater) in #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Islands. Authors Rachel I. Leihy and others - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02113-2

In der Antarktis gibt es nicht nur Pinguine. Wir sind sogar einem Drachen begegnet!
#meermittwoch #eisberg #antarktis #Antarctica

Zum #meermittwoch eine Gruppe Adeliepinguine vor Paulet Island
#pinguin #Pinguinliebe #Vogelfotografie #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #antarktis #antarctica #BirdsOfMastodon

RT @seashepherd: 🚨Krill Crisis Alert 🚨
Our recent encounters with legal -yet destructive- #krill fishing operations in #Antarctica have unveiled the urgent need for change. These super trawlers invade proposed marine protected areas, threatening penguins and whales in their feeding grounds! 1/3

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinemep/status/1643240650949681155