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

Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The melting of Antarctica's sea ice has had severe consequences for the Southern Ocean already, from the loss of its habitats to the increase of its sea levels to the intensification of its storms and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...