Floating ice shelves represent the greatest unexplored habitat in the Southern Ocean. They cover more that 1.5 million km2 of the Antarctic continental shelf, but only a total area of around the ...

The iceberg cometh. The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a British island off Antarctica, potentially jeopardizing both marine life and ships in the area.

“As we get less sea ice, we probably get less Antarctic krill ... in the Southern Ocean. One is the South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf marine protected area, which was established in ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea beneath. For 20 years, Simon Morley has ...

A23a broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in August 1986. The iceberg remained stationary for approximately 34 years. But in 2020, ocean ... down the eastern side of the ...

For 20 years, Simon Morley has been cutting holes in Antarctic sea ice and diving into the frigid ... lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing to drill ...

Scientists found this surreal underwater ecosystem after one of them spotted an unusual groove popping out of the Antarctic ...

We have arrived back safe and sound after 11 days crossing the Southern Ocean. Our exit from Jang ... like slipping around on a scalloped ice rink. To prevent the equipment from coming loose and ...

“Like, what if we take this feature and we move it up or down ... water to the ocean. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers suggest the massive ice sheet could ...

The cacophony of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of precision-engineered little pieces of plastic tumbling out onto the floor filled the young ... as Endurance slipped beneath the ice and begin her final ...

Cruise along the vertical front of the ice shelf, where you might see the occasional chunk of ice dropping into the ocean up ... journeys in Antarctic history on this island, sailing from London ...