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Rare Melanistic Gentoo Penguin Chick Spotted In Antarctica With The Goofiest Grin

IFL Science 26 Mar 2025
As Grant Humphries, director of science of Oceanites Inc., told IFLScience, all data collected is made available online, facilitating monitoring of the vastly warmed Antarctic Peninsula.
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Tests confirm presence of high pathogenicity avian flu on South Africa’s Marion Island

Mail Guardian South Africa 24 Mar 2025
It reached the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2024 and was detected at the French archipelagos of Crozet and Kerguelen (950km and 2300km east of Marion, respectively) in October and November 2024.
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Stark County roundup: News from around the Canton region

The Alliance Review 23 Mar 2025
Community wellness grants available ... April 4 ... StarkMHAR Attn. Carrie Long, 121 Cleveland Ave ... NW ... NE ... Stark County resident and photographer Richard Gotschall will share stories about his adventures to the Antarctic peninsula and Victoria Falls in Zambia.
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Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

Futurism 22 Mar 2025
"The George VI Ice Shelf buttresses the largest volume of upstream grounded ice of any Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf," said lead author and CIRES research scientist Alison Banwell in a statement at the time ... More on the Antarctic.
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Massive iceberg breakaway exposes undiscovered creatures beneath Antarctic waters

Interesting Engineering 22 Mar 2025
However, beneath the dark Antarctic ice, no such process occurs ... Unlike most ice shelves that extend over the open ocean, George VI is wedged between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island, making it more stable despite extensive melting.
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Discovery of Immense Methane Leaks in Antarctica

Dissident Voice 22 Mar 2025
Rising plumes of methane (CH4) near the Antarctic Peninsula raises a major concern that trapped methane will be released into the atmosphere, exacerbating an already dire situation of accelerating global temperatures.
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Argentine Navy Rescues Chilean Supply Vessel off Antarctica

The Maritime Executive 21 Mar 2025
Last week, the Argentine Navy carried out a challenging rescue tow for a Chilean supply vessel that had lost power off Livingston Island, north of the Antarctic Peninsula ... and Antarctic base support.
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Thriving Antarctic ecosystems found in wake of recently detached iceberg

Phys Dot Org 21 Mar 2025
... the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet.
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Study finds penguin poop sends favorite prey into frenzy

Knoxville Daily Sun 20 Mar 2025
Antarctic krill swim in fast "zigzags" in reaction to guano from predators, American scientists say ... Bird experts had previously collected 78g of Adélie guan from a colony on Torgersen Island off the Antarctic Peninsula near Palmer Station.
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Turkish scientists seek solutions for future of world in Antarctica

Anadolu Agency 13 Mar 2025
Goksu Uslular, one of the expedition participants, noted that she researched geochemical and geodynamic differences between Horseshoe Island volcanics and volcanics with similar age on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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H5N1 flu is now killing birds on the continent of Antarctica

New Scientist 12 Mar 2025
A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds ... .
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Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world

The Observer 10 Mar 2025
Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration ... Our ancestors were among them ... Likewise, stoats to Orkney. The midge Eretmoptera murphyi made it from South Georgia to the Antarctic peninsula, 500 miles away, despite being flightless ... Share ... .
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‘A dream experiment’: our Australian icebreaker is on a crucial mission to Antarctica

The Observer 07 Mar 2025
... East Antarctic ice sheet ... As the most northerly ice-shelf system outside the Antarctic peninsula, the Denman Glacier is already one of the fastest retreating glaciers in Australian Antarctic Territory.
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