For decades, computer models of climate change have predicted that as the Earth gets warmer, the water at the surface of the ocean becomes less salty — melting polar ice adds a lot of water to the ...

This brings heat waves on land and melts even more of the Antarctic ice sheet, which raises sea levels globally. Our new study has revealed that the Southern Ocean is changing, but in a different way ...

The locations of humpback whale catches in the early 20th century indicate that most climate models overestimate the historic ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

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

Freshening of the Southern Ocean Date: September 1, 2016 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Over the past decades, the northward drift of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has strengthened.

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

But very few ships dare ply the Southern Ocean other than along the Drake Passage, the relatively narrow route between the tip of South America and Antarctica; the seas are so rough even there ...

It's good news for bold surfers, but perhaps not so much for coastal communities - new research connects climate change and warming oceans with bigger and more powerful ocean waves.

What is a sea? If you happen to call the sea the ocean, you’re not necessarily wrong – seas can still be considered a part of the ocean. What typically defines them, however, is that they are ...