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

Researchers have found evidence of a major shift in the circulation of the Southern Ocean, which could accelerate climate change for the whole planet. They say the finding caught them off guard, and ...

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

Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's ...

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 ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to ‘hear’ the impacts of a marine heatwave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ...

The vats are anchored to the seabed and battered by the ocean currents. Underwater, there are a lot of variables in terms of pressure, movement, and temperature, depending on the season. “The ocean ...

By combining satellite observations with data from underwater robots, we built a 15-year picture of changes in ocean salinity, temperature and sea ice. What we found was astonishing.