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"People say we know more about the moon than the ocean - and they are right."The Future Lab also featured a 1.5m (4.9ft) model of The Endurance, the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his ...
In 2022, a groundbreaking mission led by scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named Ran to explore the uncharted depths ...
Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...
Six months after devastating wildfires swept through Los Angeles communities, comprehensive testing shows Santa Monica Bay ...
Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...
Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...
Antarctica’s ocean flip: Satellites catch sudden salt surge melting ice from below Date: July 2, 2025 Source: University of Southampton Summary: A massive and surprising change is unfolding ...
Antarctica’s sea ice has been melting for decades, and for much of that time, this melt has made the surface of the Southern Ocean fresher, maintaining the ice that still survives. (In fact, a fresher ...
The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of ...
A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback loop.
Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...
Near Antarctica, Saltier Seas Mean Less Ice, Study Finds Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found.