Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...

The frigid waters that surround Antarctica may be inhospitable to human inhabitance, but they are churning with the manmade ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and ...

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet - sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife ...

Traditionally, melting sea ice is expected to freshen ocean surface waters, as freshwater from the ice dilutes the salty sea.

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...