A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

British and South Korean scientists had to retreat earlier from one of their Antarctic missions after a failure occurred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by meters and lead to ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...

A new study shows Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier. This may signal broader ecosystem changes driven by climate change.

A process has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice that could weaken carbon sequestration and accelerate climate change.

A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

A squad of graduate students aboard the icebreaker Araon is getting a crash course in the slow and physical work of ocean exploration.

The first icefish was discovered in 1927, swimming in the frigid waters of the southernmost extreme of the Earth, the ...