Data of the first
100.000 years
According to human data, Antarctica has remained mostly covered by ice in the last 100.000 years, thanks to a drastic reduction and often the ban of the use of carbon fossils by humans. Despite these efforts, slow but steady deglaciation is still ongoing, especially on the northernmost coast. The most important ice shelves of the South Pole are nearly disappeared, like the Ross Ice shelf, which covers only a quarter of its original surface.
Marine fauna around Antarctica is the same as today, but something important is happening: mean water temperatures are slowly rising, causing a reduction of krill. Even if still significant, antarctic krill biomass has decreased by 30% and lots of krill-dependant species have reduced in number. Whales' density, for example, has decreased by 50% in certain locations. If this situation will get worse in the future, a great interspecific competition event would occur, causing a multitude of extinctions.