Posts Tagged: Antarctic

For the last 3 years, WWF’s Polar Programme has been supporting critical science undertaken by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Antarctica. Dr Yan Ropert-Coudert leads a team of keen scientists who spend a year or more at Dumont D’Urville station in Antarctica studying Adélie penguins. The scientists attach miniature GPS devices [...]

In April this year, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced plans for the proposed merger of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) to create a single body responsible for marine and polar science. At WWF, we work closely with BAS. We view them as a leading light in Antarctic [...]

Populations of chinstrap penguins are in decline around the Antarctic Peninsula – one of the fastest warming places on the planet. The US-based organisation Oceanites has been collecting and analysing penguin population data at many locations on the Antarctic Peninsula since 1994. One of those is Deception Island (62°57′S, 60°38′W) – one of the most [...]

Climate change is well established on the Antarctic peninsula, one of the most rapidly warming places on our planet. This is threatening ice sheets that have been stable for many thousands of years. The BBC today reported on the results, published by Nature, of an ice core retrieved by the British Antarctic Survey from James [...]

Antarctica, our largest wilderness region, is under increasing pressure from global environmental change and a growing interest in the regions resources, according to an important paper published today in the top journal Science. Often cited as one of the most successful examples of international cooperation (see my last blog entry), the Antarctic Treaty System itself [...]

Let me start with a question – where is there left on our Earth that has never seen a war, and where scientific research and environmental protection (including a complete and indefinite ban on drilling for oil and gas) are the highest priorities? The answer is of course Antarctica, a continent designated under the Antarctic [...]

When people think of WWF’s work protecting wildlife and ecosystems, their first image might be lush rainforests or tropical oceans. For me, and for WWF as a whole, the frozen polar regions of our planet are just as vital. In terms of physical size, the Arctic and Antarctic are two of WWF’s largest priority places. Together they cover almost a [...]