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 Newly identified Antarctic Killer Whales at risk5 Aug 08
A study in the journal Polar Biology concludes that two recently discovered species of Killer Whale inhabiting the Antarctic sea are at risk due to the effects of global warming at the South Pole. These fish-eating Killer Whales rely on the ice where fish bunch up in schools in order to evade predators. Scientists are anticipating that as the ice patterns in the Antarctic continue to be altered by climate change, the Killer Whales may not be able to adapt to their new hunting grounds. |
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Arctic tourists evacuated amid melting and unprecedented warming
1 Aug 08
If the 21 tourists evacuated from the Baffin Islands yesterday weren't convinced that we're near a climate change tipping point they are now.
According to a Canwest new service story out this morning the tourists were evacuated from the Auyuittuq National Park:
"Thawing permafrost, eroding lakeshores, a melting glacier and fears of flash floods at a national park on Baffin Island have forced the evacuation of 21 tourists and led officials to declare much of the wilderness reserve off-limits until geologists and ice experts can assess what appear to be the latest dramatic effects of climate change in Canada's Arctic."
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More frequent icebergs could trash Antarctic sea floor
21 Jul 08
While not much life exists on the icy surface of the Antarctic, life is teaming undersea and scientists are now worried that more frequent icebergs could pose a real threat to these underwater inhabitants.
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Global warming up close and personal on the edge of the earth
11 Jul 08
Today we have yet another report about a far off place most people have never heard about being destroyed by the effects of global warming.
The massive Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is collapsing.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is reporting today that:
"Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years." [my emphasis]
