CausesSteven Guerrisi/Fickr/Great Pacific Garbage Patch, by Steven Guerrisi and Sarah WanCommercial use & mods allowed Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
Newsletter www.yahoo.com New warnings over rapid melting at Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ Scientists have issued new warnings over a glacier in Antarctica that is described as "the doomsday glacier" because its collapse could lead to rapid sea-level rise.
Impacts www.nytimes.com The iciest waters around Antarctica are less icy An unusual combination of events caused the Weddell Sea to lose more sea ice than in recent years.
Impacts qz.com Boaty McBoatface is helping us understand rising sea levels The information the sub is gathering has yet to be incorporated into climate change models.
Impacts www.nytimes.com An Emperor Penguin colony in Antarctica vanishes A colony in Halley Bay lost more than 10,000 chicks in 2016 and hasn't recovered.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley
