Plant Life on Antarctica Is Growing Rapidly Due to Climate Change
Antarctica is an alien world in some ways – looking familiar, but with a sense of strangeness. As far as plants go, Antarctica is currently host to only around 100…
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The Arctic Is Hotter Than Ever
The Arctic is hotter than ever, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual report. The report contains data from 61 scientists in 11 countries. They noticed a…
Locals Disturbed by Sounds from the Arctic Sea
Locals can’t place what they are hearing from the Arctic sea while animals in the area seem disturbed by it. For months now, residents of Nunavut Canada has been hearing…
Drop in Atmospheric Oxygen Baffles Scientists
Scientists baffled by declining oxygen levels in the atmosphere explore possible causes. The level of oxygen on the earth’s atmosphere has been on a decline for the past 8000 centuries.…
Ice Shelf to Break from Antartica
While Antarctic scientists have been documenting that ice shelves are dropping from Antarctica at a rate that is faster than expected. The Nansen Ice Shelf is probably the next giant…
Thousands of birds found dead along Alaskan shoreline
OOTBS Thought: Likely another effect of El Nino and the warmest year on record. While this mass die seems to be larger than the previous three, it is common during…
10 Inch Gigantic Spiders of Antarctica
If you have an aversion to spiders, you may want to cancel that diving trip to the Antarctic. Fortunately though you will probably never run into the mammoth sized arachnids,…