Scientists found a rich community of fish, coral, octopus, anemones and sponges that previously sat beneath a sheet of ice ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

Massive ice sheets in western Antarctica and Greenland are melting much faster ... a reduction in the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink,” Gayen said. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current acted as ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current ...

Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.