Antarctica Article List

Earth was hotter than it is now 1,600 million years ago, international project reveals from geological samples from Antarctica

 “Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integrated Project Consortium” is an international project in which Associate Professor Zai Seki of Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science participated […]

Antarctic snow cover has experienced a long-term decline over the last 5000 years and has increased since the Industrial Revolution

 A research group centered on Ikumi Oyabu, a specially appointed researcher at the National Institute of Polar Research,* is working on a large amount of ice excavated at and around the Dome Fuji Station in inland Antarctica […]

Capturing the transformation of the deep ocean circulation, the subduction of the weakening Antarctic bottom water

 In the waters south of the Antarctic Ocean to the south of Australia, the tendency of high temperature and low oxygen concentration to spread to the bottom layer and the tendency of low temperature and high oxygen concentration to spread to the mesopelagic zone […]

Environment: Antarctica's human pollution can accelerate snowmelt

Environment: Human pollution in Antarctica may accelerate sn […]

Hokkaido University and others elucidate the reversal from the tendency of desalination due to the rapid rise in salinity in the deep sea of ​​Antarctica

 A joint research group consisting of Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Tokyokaiyo University, and Fisheries Research and Education Agency is the sea in the Antarctic waters south of Australia […]