British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species faces growing threats from climate change and overfishing. WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British ...

Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – tiny swimming crustaceans, roughly 2 inches (60 millimeters) long.In a newly published study, colleagues and I found that ...

Now, krill fishing is on the verge of expanding. Along the Antarctic Peninsula, the fishing industry has proposed increasing the catch limit fourfold, from 155,000 tons to 668,101 tons annually ...

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across ...

For immediate release. Office: 0131 659 9100 Out of hours: 0131 659 9100 Email: [email protected] Krill from Space: Pioneering project takes off to protect climate’s tiny superheroes WWF, the ...

Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52135-6 Cite This Page : ...

Heart of the Antarctic. If krill is the staff of life for the baleen whales of the Southern Ocean—if these great animals are just so much recycled krill—then so it is for most Antarctic creatures.