Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Subscribe ...

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

During the Antarctic winter, sea ice spreads and sunlight fades, leaving little visible change at the ocean surface. Deep ...

As some of the most productive oceans on the planet - a soup of microscopic plant and animal plankton - it's murky to boot.

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Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

An enormous iceberg that split off from the Antarctic ice sheet decades ago has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid ...

A partnership between Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of the University of Victoria, and the Spanish National Research Council will advance scientific understanding of one of the most ...