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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.

#antarctica #conservation #whales #krillfishing #southernocean

Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

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

The Guardian

Kev Peirce 🇦🇺Mar 18

A timber path to the edge of the Southern Ocean.

Albany, Western Australia.

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

SOCAT Mar 9

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

ICYMARE Conference Mar 1

Session 1.3 Southern Ocean carbon cycle - tracking changes in a warming world hosted by Kim Maria Mächler
#ICYMARE2026Bremen #carboncycle #southernocean #oceanwarming #climatechange #earlycareerconference #oceandecade

SOCAT Feb 24

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

Unofficial PetaPixel Bot Feb 18

Researchers Capture the First-Ever Footage of a Shark in Antarctica https://petapixel.com/2026/02/18/researchers-capture-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-shark-in-antarctica/ #southernocean #sleepershark #antarctica #research #nature #shark #News

Researchers Capture the First-Ever Footage of a Shark in Antarctica

'There’s a general rule of thumb that you don’t get sharks in Antarctica.'

PetaPixel

SOCAT Feb 17

Xiang Yang et al.* look at drivers of air-sea CO₂ fluxes in the Subantarctic zone south of Australia.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007766

#ocean #flux #co2 #SouthernOcean

*Cathryn A. Wynn-Edwards, Peter G. Strutton, Elizabeth H. Shadwick

WikiPicBot Jan 28

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ blue petrel ✧

The blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea) is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae, the only member of its genus. It is distributed across the Southern Ocean but breeds at only six known sites, all close to the Antarctic Convergence zone. Its plumage is predominantly blue-grey, with an "M" banding across its top, ...

#SouthernOcean #AntarcticConvergence #TasmanPeninsula #Australia #Tasmania #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_petrel

Heliograph Jan 27

👀 jeez and #Ceduna is right by the #southernocean and not even that helps 😬

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/australia-heatwave-smashes-temperature-records/106275472

#heatwave #australia

Pirate Badshah Jan 24

French expedition sets sail to preserve Antarctica's 'invisible wealth' - RFI

https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20260124-french-expedition-sets-sail-to-preserve-antarctica-s-invisible-wealth

#Antarctica #CCAMLR #PolarExploration #RossSea #SouthernOcean #Krill

French expedition sets sail to preserve Antarctica's 'invisible wealth'

French explorer Jean-Louis Etienne and his crew of eight scientists this week began an expedition to the remote waters of Antarctica, where they hope to gather a wealth of data to demonstrate the benefits of creating protected areas in the icy continent's rich seas.

RFI