Southern Ocean releases carbon dioxide during storms
The amount of carbon dioxide that is released back into the atmosphere by storms has significance in global climate change, according to a new study.
The amount of carbon dioxide that is released back into the atmosphere by storms has significance in global climate change, according to a new study.
Blue, fin and other baleen whales take in tens of thousands of liter of water while feeding. A new study explains how they manage not to drown.
The Argentine airline Flybondi has added the southernmost city in the world as a new destination and now operates three times a week between Buenos Aires and Ushuaia.
In early February, the “Endurance22” expedition departs from Cape Town in a renewed attempt to locate and investigate the wreckage of the lost ship.
Complete darkness and a permanent lack of nutrients, such as found in the middle of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, do not keep microorganisms from forming diverse communities.
Mussels, barnacles and other species travel, attached to ship hulls, across all oceans, including Antarctica, and can pose a threat to marine life native to the Southern Ocean.
A fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles will collect important data under and around the fragile glacier in Antarctica over the next two months.
As a result of extreme heat with temperatures of 44°C, hundreds of Magellanic penguins died near Punta Tombo in Argentina in January 2019.
A good five days ahead of schedule, Harpreet Chandi becomes the first woman of color to reach the South Pole in a solo expedition.
Marine invertebrates such as sea squirts, sponges and corals live in symbiosis with many different microorganisms, some of which produce substances relevant to medicine.
The members of the 63rd research expedition team were able to moor the ship about 350 meters offshore after it was unable to go any further due to thick pack ice.
An AWI and BAS research team encountered an unexpectedly diverse fauna on the seafloor beneath the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.
Researchers at the Belgian Antarctic station Princess Elisabeth are now supported by the first electric vehicle for polar regions.
Petrobras’ PMP environmental project recorded 20 percent more Magellanic penguins on Brazilian beaches this year compared to 2020.
En route to Antarctica, a passenger complained of symptoms that rapidly worsened, prompting her and her family to be evacuated.
Scientists used the total solar eclipse in Antarctica to study changes in the ionosphere that accompany such an event.
In Patagonia, paleontologists found very well-preserved bones of a bizarre-looking dinosaur that cannot be assigned to any previously known species.
Antarctic sea ice is shrinking and numerous emperor penguin colonies are losing their habitat, prompting an official proposal in the U.S. to list the species as “threatened”.
Contrary to earlier assumptions, climate change does have an impact on the circumpolar current that surrounds Antarctica.
Juvenile fur seal males eat so much Antarctic krill in winter that this amount should be considered in the management of the krill fishery.
Today, British Army officer Harpreet Chandi started her unassisted expedition to the South Pole.
Since the last ice age, the Antarctic ice sheet has lost huge amounts of ice several times in a very short period of time, a new study now shows.
Researchers hope to be able to set up a sort of early warning system for mass strandings of whales using high-resolution satellite images.
Weddell seals do not yet appear to be much affected by climate change, while crabeater seals are more likely to suffer as warming continues.