Sea ice is to life in the Southern Ocean as soil is to a forest. It is the foundation for Antarctic marine ecosystems. Less sea ice is a danger to all wildlife By Andrew Constable and Jess ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

For nearly 40 years, the amount of ice in the sea around Antarctica showed small but significant increases, culminating in a record high in 2014. But this was followed by a large loss of sea ice ...

Lead author Dr. Ewan Wakefield, in the Department of Geography, Durham University, said, "Every winter the sea freezes around Antarctica, with sea ice covering tens of millions of square miles.

Naughten noted that the deep ocean water around Antarctica is ... observing rapid ice loss in West Antarctica, which is the fastest-growing contribution to sea level rise." Editor's Note: This ...

Preventing whaling in the Southern Ocean (the seas around Antarctica) is critical to ensuring the recovery of whale populations in the entire southern hemisphere, a new WWF report states. Gland, ...

Antarctica sea ice was at its lowest extent in February 2022 – more than 1 million square kilometers less than the average A £5m project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC ...

Though the sea ice pack around the South Pole had steadily expanded up until 2015, its area suddenly plummeted in 2016. The scale of the Antarctic sea ice reached a record low in 2023. The ...

Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long ... driven partly by an El Nino phenomenon that elevated heat around the globe. Scientists have been concerned since mid-2016 that global ...

"Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically raise sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) extends over the Weddell Sea in ...