Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater ...

What can submarine canyons teach scientists about the Earth’s oceans? This is what a recent study published in Marine Geology hopes to address as a team of scientists conducted the most extensive ...

A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging more than 4,000 meters. The findings provide an unprecedented view into how ...

Schematic diagram. beryllium-7 produced by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere is transported to near-ground levels via folding of the tropopause associated with low- and high-pressure systems, and is ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and ...

The paper found that the water in the Southern Ocean has unexpectedly been getting saltier over the last 10 years, a reversal of a trend measured since roughly the 1970s. Its main author told Snopes ...

Steven Siems receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Zhaoyang Kong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...