Unlike this wave, which was photographed during a storm in the Southern Ocean, rogue waves are completely unpredictable for ships and are more than twice as high as the neighboring waves. (Photo: Julia Hager) After detailed observations of waves in the Southern Ocean,...
In February and March 2021, the research team took 17 water samples from the southern Weddell Sea to investigate the concentration of microplastics. Photo: Clara Leistenschneider The pollution of the Southern Ocean with microplastics has been significantly...
Like all the world’s oceans and seas, the Southern Ocean is becoming more acidic. The cause is CO2 emissions linked to human activities. Acidification could, however, reach dramatic proportions by the end of the century. Image: Heiner Kubny By 2100, the acidity...
Landscape of the Kerguelen archipelago, in the Gulf of Morbihan, south of the Monts du Milieu. Image: Camille Lin These are very special French territories, as much for their biodiversity as for their administrative system, whose specific features reflect these...
The new ice shelf-ocean model estimates the shape of cavities beneath ice shelves to improve modelling of ocean-ice interactions that cause melting beneath the ice shelf. Photo: Pete Harmsen A new Antarctic ice shelf-ocean model is revolutionizing predictions of...