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Japan’s new whaling ‘mother ship’ being built to travel as far as Antarctica

Company says vessel’s construction will help ‘pass on our whaling culture to the next generation’

The Guardian - AU

What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don't really know

Across much of the world’s oceans, waves are getting bigger. In the Southern Ocean, where storm-driven swell can propagate halfway across the world to California, the average wave has grown about 20cm in the past 30 years.

The Conversation

First thing: Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn

Former intelligence chiefs say national security officials are ‘shaking their heads at what damage might have been done’. Plus, the rise of LGBTQ ‘shotgun’ weddings

The Guardian - UK

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The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean on Earth, and the impacts will be felt for generations

Over the last 50 years, the oceans have been working in overdrive to slow global warming, absorbing about 40% of our carbon dioxide emissions, and over 90% of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere.

The Conversation

Scientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions

New Zealand researchers believe the isolated spruce could reveal much about the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s major carbon sinks

The Guardian - AU

How the world's loneliest tree is helping scientists advance climate change research

The world's loneliest tree stands on Campbell Island in New Zealand, with its nearest companion more than 220 kilometres away — but its unlikely existence is helping to advance climate change research.

ABC News

‘Nella Dan, Nella Dan, Nella Dan’: the ghost of the lost red ship that called me to Antarctica

As a child, Favel Parrett was devastated when the Danish polar explorer Nella Dan was scuttled. As an adult, she brought it back to life

The Guardian - AU

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Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize: Study

Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, recent research has found.

Dynamite News

The South African ship that found Antarctica's Endurance wreck is vital for climate science

It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance. It was an ill-fated journey: the ship got trapped in the ice and eventually crushed by pack ice in 1915. It sank to the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddell…

The Conversation

Whales’ Response To La Niña, Lack Of Antarctic Krill Found In Baleen

Researchers have compared climate records and found a connection with isotopes stored in filter-feeding whale tissue.

Zenger

Covid costs force 'deferral' of Navy ship project

Despite concerns about the capability of our naval fleet, plans for a new ship are going on ice.

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