Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

ABC News' Jay O'Brien talks with Captain Radomir Novosel of the Scenic Eclipse, a cruise sailing the Southern Ocean with a of ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials.” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth's history, researchers ...

In certain conditions, the Southern Ocean may release a unique burp, which can occur when emissions start reducing from current levels. However, in the current scenario, there is no possibility of ...

A new scientific report has shown that global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025.