The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

"The severity of the sea ice decline is a substantial concern." Scientists make puzzling find while examining recent ...

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents and could have a disastrous effect on the climate, a new report warns. The deep-water flows which drive ocean ...

The passage of Cape Horn represents the southernmost point of the race, the most intense in terms of current, with a strong ...

Antarctica’s ice shelves are rapidly thinning due to warm water flowing beneath them, a process accelerated by decreasing sea ...

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents. Vanishing Antarctic ...

the channel that extends between the tip of South America and Antarctica’s King George Island, considered one of the roughest bodies of water in the world due to powerful currents unimpeded by a ...

Unfortunately, the propeller issue could not be fixed so the decision was made not to continue to Antarctica, a further two-day journey away from inhabited land and help, should the need arise.

Gabriel Boric’s confirms commitment to the Antarctic Treaty is a ‘source of pride’ while peace in the ‘continent of science’ ...

Global temperatures plummeted and the continents shifted, separating Antarctica from South America and creating a circumpolar current that isolated it from the rest of the world. Now, just a tiny ...

By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...