southern ocean

humpback whale (representative image) Something unusual may be unfolding in the Southern Ocean. In late June, whale watchers…

Scientists say we have only explored a fraction of Earth’s Seas and Oceans Less than 30% of the…

Melting ice in Antarctica. (Laura Cimoli via SWNS) By Talker The decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the…

NEED TO KNOW A sleeper shark has been spotted in the frigid waters surrounding Antarctica for the first…

Tens of thousands of years ago, a new study suggests, a warming event led to the release of…

Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible…

A suspected outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 has been reported on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, located…

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) encircles Antarctica between roughly 45°S and 70°S, flowing endlessly from west to east.…

When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in…

Western Australia’s humpback sightings fell 60%; days later, weakened Southern Ocean seabirds appeared thousands of kilometres away on the country’s east coast