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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
Means of Extinction: Antarctic “Super Vortex” is Accelerating
Means of Extinction: Antarctic “Super Vortex” is Accelerating From the Daily Mail in the UK comes an article titled Antarctica ‘super vortex’ is speeding up due to climate change – and it could melt thousands of square miles of sea ice, study reveals. The article was published on 27 March 2024. More sensationalist headlines appear in […]
Ecological Disruption and Militarization of Antarctica Will Push the Planet Closer to Tipping Points
Ecological Disruption and Militarization of Antarctica Will Push the Planet Closer to Tipping Points Antarctica, a continent about 40% larger than Europe in area, has also been called the world’s largest desert and the coldest, windiest, loneliest continent. Such descriptions do not exactly make this the most attractive continent, but in keeping with our times, those […]
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study Paris (AFP) – Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds’ attempts to adapt to the shrinking landscape. The study by the British Antarctic Survey found that record-low sea […]
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover? Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back. A small boat glides around patches of sea ice in the water off Deception Island in […]
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics Global distribution of study sites and relative 13 species considered (red dots = Arctic sites; red line = Arctic species and samples; yellow dots = Antarctica sites; yellow line = Antarctica species and samples). For each species, the matrices analyzed are shown in […]
‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All
‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this” Thwaites Glacier One thing […]
Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern
Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more Satellite view of Antarctica with the Thwaites glacier marked in red. Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/UIG/Getty Images Twenty years ago, an area of ice thought to weigh almost 500bn […]
Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies
ICE TO KNOW YA Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies There’s grim, mixed news out about Antarctica. Two new papers on melting Antarctic ice come just days after NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive subterranean hole in West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the Florida-sized hunk of ice which alone could unleash […]
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in Stone circles caused by permafrost on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Image: By Hannes Grobe, via Wikimedia Commons Global warming is at work far below the surface, at depths seemingly insulated from the greenhouse effect. This is bad news for the permafrost. LONDON, 29 January, 2019 – Even in […]
China Boosts Antarctic Presence With Planned Permanent Airbase, Cites “Strategic Needs”
China Boosts Antarctic Presence With Planned Permanent Airbase, Cites “Strategic Needs” China is set to significantly expand its presence in Antarctica as it takes the crucial step of establishing its first permanent airport and large landing strip close to its small research outpost, Zhongshan station. After nearly a decade of planning construction of the airport is set […]
Antarctic melt accelerates sea level rise
Antarctic melt accelerates sea level rise While renewable energy is on a roll—setting records in Europe over the last few months[1], and racking up impressive numbers in capacity buildout in 2017 [2], it’s easy to forget what is happening behind the scenes. Extreme weather gets all the headlines: the wild fires in Canada and Sweden […]
Sea level rise due to Antarctic ice melt has ‘tripled over past five years’
Sea level rise due to Antarctic ice melt has ‘tripled over past five years’ The rate of sea level rise resulting from the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet has tripled over the past five years, according to new research from a global team of scientists. The study, published in Nature, finds that ice loss […]
Myth and dystopia in the Anthropocene
Myth and dystopia in the Anthropocene The sleeping ice giants of Antarctica are stirring. Will we wake up before they devour us? Calving front of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina. Credit: Flickr/Etienne Berthier, Université de Toulouse. CC-BY-2.0. In the autumn of 1913, Karl Jung dreamt of a monstrous flood of yellow waves cascading down […]
Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could ‘Encircle The Globe’ Causing Worldwide Health Problems
Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could ‘Encircle The Globe’ Causing Worldwide Health Problems Scientists are sounding the alarm about a volcano eruption in Antartica that could cause global health problems. The ash from this eruption could encircle the globe, affecting millions of people. Deception Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a hotbed of […]
