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Southern Hemisphere

A photo taken from the deck of a cruise ship in Antarctica, featuring people bundled in jackets looking up at a snowy mountain.
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Tourism and Distant Fires Affect Antarctica’s Black Carbon Levels

by Larissa G. Capella 18 November 202418 November 2024

Tourism and biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere are boosting black carbon levels and accelerating ice melt in Antarctica.

从太空看到的南极光(南半球上空的极光)
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太空飓风在南半球盘旋,夏季尤甚

by Rebecca Dzombak 28 August 202428 August 2024

先前对最近发现的空间天气事件的研究主要集中在北半球。新的研究表明,每年有数十次飓风袭击南半球。

Aurora australis (aurora over the Southern Hemisphere) seen from space
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Space Hurricanes Swirl in the Southern Hemisphere, Mostly in Summer

by Rebecca Dzombak 31 July 202428 August 2024

Previous studies of the recently discovered space weather feature focused on the Northern Hemisphere. Dozens hit the Southern Hemisphere each year, new research shows.

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Núcleos de hielo de la Antártica capturan la contaminación de los metales pesados y su historia

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 April 202422 April 2024

Un núcleo de hielo que tiene registro más de 2 milenios, sugiere que la minería y la metalurgia aumentaron y disminuyeron con acontecimientos como las guerras y las epidemias.

Several long tubes of ice in transparent plastic rest in a freezer. A pair of hands clad in blue gloves with black cuffs reaches down into the freezer. On the wrapper of each tube of ice is a label handwritten in blue—FL_104, FL_105, and so forth—as well as arrows pointing to one end of the ice.
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Antarctic Ice Cores Capture Heavy Metal Pollution—And History

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 26 February 202423 April 2024

An ice core record stretching back more than 2 millennia hints at the mining and metallurgy that waxed and waned with events such as wars and epidemics.

A drone photo of green mesas surrounding Brazil’s São Francisco River.
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Global Water Loss Happens Almost Entirely in the Southern Hemisphere

by Meghie Rodrigues 19 December 202319 December 2023

A recent study suggests that the Southern Hemisphere not only is more vulnerable to climate change but also loses significantly more water than the Northern Hemisphere.

Llamas walking along a rocky landscape in front of a retreating glacier in Cordillera Blanca, northern Peru.
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How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers

by Sofia Moutinho 9 November 202317 November 2023

Reintroducing these animals can enrich barren soils and potentially reduce water contamination, a study shows.

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

A 150-Day Periodicity is Revealed in the Southern Extratropics

by Sarah Kang 12 June 20238 June 2023

An internally generated 150-day periodicity is newly identified in the Southern Hemisphere extratropical large-scale atmospheric circulation, which arises from the annular mode’s propagating regime.

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The Crust Travels to the Earth’s Core and Back in Record Time

by Vincent Salters 16 December 20228 February 2023

Subduction of continental crust around the Gondwana supercontinent may explain the mantle Dupal anomaly of the southern hemisphere.

The dark blue orb of Neptune is viewed by Voyager 2 at an upward angle from the south pole. A dark navy storm spot, the Great Dark Spot, is just to the right of the center of the planet, and white high-altitude clouds are scattered around the planet.
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Diagnosing Neptune’s Chilly Summer

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 28 April 202228 April 2022

A pandemic project analyzing a trove of infrared images revealed an unexplained phenomenon taking place in Neptune’s atmosphere.

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