Tag: UNSW Sydney

Rockabye baby: the ‘love songs’ of lonely leopard seals resemble human nursery rhymes

Polar Journal AG Team

Male leopard seals sing for hours each day over many weeks and their patterned trills resemble the structure of human nursery rhymes. A new study reveals that these underwater love songs may be deliberately simple and repetitive, helping the seals stand out and be heard across vast icy waters.

The Polar Retrospective - A slowing ocean stream, an Antarctic cure for bananas, and whales colliding with ships

Polar Journal AG Team

The Polar Retrospective looks at recent scientific publications from the world's polar regions. This week, we look at studies on bananas, whale-ship collisions, and an important Atlantic ocean stream that may soon slow down.

Rafts of garbage, kelp and other debris could transport alien invaders to a warming Antarctica

Polar Journal AG Team

The remote icy wilderness at the bottom of the world is exposed to pollution and foreign organisms on floating ocean debris.

We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Antarctic glaciers before a dramatic collapse

Guest Author

Two Australian scientists delved deep into a valuable archive of more than 300,000 historical photographs from Antarctica to understand how glaciers reacted in the past.