“The planet has transformed as #HumanActivities alter the texture of our land as seen from space, expanding cities, #clearing dark #forests
for replacement by bright agricultural lands and contributing to the desiccation of the Aral Sea which has shrunk to less than 10% of its 1960s size."

“Some of that change can even be seen in the images themselves, even though the Earth is shrouded in cloud. "Although they're of different parts of the Earth, the one thing that does show up in both images, although you're looking at different parts of it, is Antarctica and the #SouthernOcean," says #BenjaminWallis, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds in the UK. "The #Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the #Earth and 28,000km of ice shelf have collapsed in between the original image and the latest image."

#NASA / #Earthrise / #Apollo 1960s vs #Artimus 2020s / #ClimateEmergency <https://bbc.com/future/article/20260417-apollo-v-artemis-how-the-earth-changed-in-58-years>

The Guardian | Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing by Karen McVeigh

Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem

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In Antarctica, one of our planet’s last great wildernesses, a remarkable comeback is taking place.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/26/antarctic-whales-comeback-threatened-industrial-krill-fishing-southern-ocean

#antarctica #conservation #whales #krillfishing #southernocean

A timber path to the edge of the Southern Ocean.

Albany, Western Australia.

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#Photo #Photography #Australia #WesternAustralia #Albany #CoastalWalk #SouthernOcean #Boardwalk #OvercastSky

Hao Huang et al.* see how the CALIPSO satellite observations can be used as a phytoplankton biomass proxy, and how they can be integrated into air-sea CO₂ flux estimates in the Southern Ocean.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108335

#SouthernOcean #co2 #flux #calipso

*Ke Zhang, Zhaoru Zhang, Walker Smith Jr., Jianfeng He, Na Liu, Chengfeng Le

Precious Mongwe et al* project geographical and seasonal shifts of the Southern Ocean carbon sink under high emissions.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01382-y

#SouthernOcean #carbon #sink

Luke Gregor, Jerry Tjiputra, Judith Hauck, Takamitsu Ito, Christopher Danek, Marcello Vichi, Sandy Thomalla & Pedro Monteiro