Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's ...

The study shows that a single species, Antarctic krill, store similar amounts of carbon to key "blue carbon" habitats such as mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrasses.

Rising temperatures are putting the future of Antarctic krill at risk. Numbering in the trillions and collectively weighing hundreds of millions of tonnes, Antarctic krill are among the most numerous ...

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 ...

In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill through a series of tests to see if they could identify the presence of a predator—in this case, Adélie penguins—by ...

Antarctic krill trap vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in the ocean floor through their sinking fecal pellets, a new study reports. The annual amount is similar to that stored by “blue ...

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 ...

Kim Bernard, at left, is an expert on Antarctic krill, a species crucial to the health of the continent’s food chain. For a research expedition on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R.V. Falkor ...

Most people will never see Antarctic sea ice up close, but its presence or absence affects our day-to-day lives.Now ...

Krill are just a few centimetres long fully grown, but are one of the most abundant animals on Earth Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny ...

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 : ...