A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

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For the first time, mighty ocean waves generated in the Southern Ocean have been accurately measured all the way to the tiny ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise global ...

Scientists found evidence that a profound change in the Antarctic Ocean followed the weakening of the Atlantic.

How much do you really know about the coldest place in the world? Expand your knowledge of Antarctica with these surprising facts. Ah, Antarctica. Cold, windy, covered in ice and, um, did we mention ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Researchers filmed a sleeper shark for the first time in Antarctic waters near the South Shetland Islands, ...

Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice ...