The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

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

The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that the Southern Ocean is undergoing an unprecedented reversal in circulation. Read on to ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are using sound to detect the effects of climate change by listening to ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...

A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current — an ocean current that flows clockwise around Antarctica.

In 2023, the study authors delved into recordings collected by six underwater microphones that were secured to the seafloor off the coast of Southern California in 2008.

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth. Scientists have tracked an unexpected and rapid rise in surface salinity ...