Southern right whales, key indicators of ocean health, are producing fewer calves due to climate-driven food shortages in the Southern Ocean. Their struggle reveals alarming environmental shifts, emphasizing the need to protect marine ecosystems as part of addressing global climate change
New research shows that reduced Antarctic sea ice in 2023 allowed heat to escape into the atmosphere, disrupting ocean circulation and increasing storm frequency, signalling potential long-term climate impacts
Hyderabad: The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like no other and best described in superlatives. Storing heat and carbon The world’s oceans take up more than 90% of the excess heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels and a third of the additional carbon dioxide. It […]