What’s the Largest Current on Earth? It Moves More Water Than Every River Combined—Many Times Over
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest current has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC,…
Antarctic Bottom Water Thinning Accelerates: Implications for Global Climate |
Antarctic Bottom Water volume has sharply declined since two thousand and two. This significant decrease accelerated notably after…
Sea Shepherd chased Japan’s whaling fleet across Antarctica for years, but the activists ultimately lost the battle | World News
For decades, the icy waters of Antarctica became the stage for one of the world’s most high-profile environmental…
Scientists tracked more than 6,000 penguin dives beneath Antarctic sea ice and found that prey may become harder to reach, even when it has not disappeared
Prey accessibility, not abundance, may shape predator behavior in penguins For nesting penguins in Antarctica, finding food is…
Less than 30% of Earth’s ocean floor has been mapped while scientists still have clearer high-resolution data of Mars than most of the seabed covering our own planet
Scientists say we have only explored a fraction of Earth’s Seas and Oceans Less than 30% of the…
27 Stunning Finalist Photos From the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2026
Each year, the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize brings together striking images that show science at its most…
Bureau of Meteorology tips mild winter after near-record warm May
Australia’s east is coming to the end of an abnormally warm May which has seen mean temperatures up…
Antarctica’s ice shelves face a growing threat from warm waters below
For years, climate models warned that warm deep water around Antarctica could edge closer to the continent’s icy…
Declining birth rates in southern right whales alarm researchers in new study
One of the world’s greatest conservation success stories is under threat, with new research revealing the reproductive rate…
Scientists stunned by discovery in world’s coldest ocean waters: ‘Signals from the past’
Tens of thousands of years ago, a new study suggests, a warming event led to the release of…
Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives Antarctic ice
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Melting polar ice supercharges ocean ‘stirring’, threatening marine climate
Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible…