Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

For more than three decades, a single orange-hulled icebreaker carried much of the United States’ scientific ambition into ...

Thwaites, the most studied glacier in the world, commands attention because it is not only the widest in the world at 80 miles but also the shakiest. And ...

The consequences will be catastrophic. For the Antarctic ice sheet to melt almost completely, a rise in average global ...

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Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

Underwater earthquakes can trigger massive phytoplankton blooms, linking deep-sea seismic activity to ocean life and carbon ...

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

Storms over the Southern Ocean help the ocean absorb more heat. Climate models may miss this, which affects future climate ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity ...