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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

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Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say

Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms

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Antarctica’s sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it

Antarctica is the world’s great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth’s climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea ice around the continent.

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NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace, according to a recent global assessment.

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Below average cyclone season tipped for Pacific region

New Zealand's two climate agencies have published their tropical cyclone outlook for the Pacific, tipping a normal or reduced season for much of the region.

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New species of otherworldly ghost shark discovered in New Zealand

Ghost shark with beak-like mouth and whip-like tail discovered in Chatham Rise

The Independent UK

New ghost shark species with unusually long nose discovered in deep seas off New Zealand

The narrow-nosed spookfish is also found in Australian waters and is distinctive for its elongated snout and whip-like tail

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Scientists In New Zealand Have Discovered More Than 100 New Species, Including From Unseen Genus

While more than 80% of the ocean has never been explored by humans, scientists in the Bounty Trough, New Zealand, are making a significant turning point. The post Scientists In New Zealand Have Discovered More Than 100 New Species, Including From Unseen Genus first appeared on Bored Panda.

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This lake has world's clearest water!

Imagine diving deep down a lake, as deep as 80 mts, only to find crystal-clear visibility! Yes, a dive down this lake is as good as the visibility that ones gets with distilled water (80 mts). Here, we take you to the Blue Lake, set in New Zealand's South Island.…

The Times of India

We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans – it’s time to ramp up observations closer to home

Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus might not look too different – same diameter, similar mass and distance from the Sun.

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New Zealand records hottest September on record

Some parts of the country exceeded normal daily maximum temperatures for the peak of summer

The Guardian - AU

Scientists discover 26 new worm species - some are so small you'd be lucky to see them

The roundworms which are just 1mm long were found at the inlet near the city of Porirua in New Zealand. As well as the 26 completely new species, 29 others species never seen in the country before were also spotted

Daily Mirror

‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss

Research institute NIWA predicts many of country’s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade

The Guardian - AU

Fresh evacuations in Gisborne as NZ's big wet continues

Two regions hardest hit in New Zealand by Cyclone Gabrielle, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne-Tairawhiti, are again under water after fresh flooding.

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Auckland sees wettest month in its history after ‘unparalleled deluge’

New Zealand’s largest city experiences 2.5 times an entire summer’s rain in just a month

The Guardian - AU

‘Binge rainfall’ sends New Zealanders’ summer plans down the drain

While rainfall has been below average across the South Island, unusually wet patterns across the north have scuppered post-Christmas holidays

ABC News

Tonga volcano sea floor map reveals 'mind-blowing' cavity left behind by eruption

A team of scientists — with the help of an uncrewed boat remotely controlled from the UK – join forces to produce one of the clearest pictures to date of what took place underneath the water as an enormous volcano erupted near the Tongan mainland.

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Ruapehu's slippery slopes: the uncertain future of snow sports in a climate emergency

With New Zealand’s two major North Island ski fields in financial trouble, the combined impact of COVID-19 on national and international tourism and this year’s very poor snow season has hit hard. But this may be only a sign of things to come as climate change affects snow sports globally.

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Underwater volcano shifts enough rock to fill three million Olympic swimming pools

Underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai's violent eruption in January is said to have made the loudest noise heard this century and displaced seven cubic kilometers of rock and sediment

The Independent UK

Tonga underwater volcano that erupted in January is ‘surprisingly intact’

The volcano continues to stand tall, team of researchers has found

The Conversation

The Zealandia Switch drove rapid global ice retreat 18,000 years ago. Has it switched to a new level?

Earlier this month, we wrapped up the latest annual end-of-summer snowline survey over New Zealand’s South Island (Te Waipounamu), providing a birdseye view of how glaciers fared during the past year.

Evening Standard

Robot boat controlled from Essex to map aftermath of Tonga volcano

The UK will send a robot boat to examine the aftermath of an underwater volcanic explosion in Tonga.

The Guardian - AU

Many of New Zealand’s glaciers could disappear in a decade, scientists warn

Glaciers becoming ‘smaller and more skeletal’, annual end-of-summer survey of the snowline finds

The Conversation

Exploring Antarctica's hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise

Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheets there’s a network of rivers and lakes. This is possible because of the insulating blanket of ice above, the flow of heat from within the Earth, and the small amount of heat generated as the ice deforms.

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