Although its land area is modest – only 1.7 square kilometers – Clipperton’s strategic and ecological significance is ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

With the help of Google Earth, everyone with access to the Internet can look up any coordinates across the globe. Google Earth has proven that satellites can grab the smallest moments and store them, ...

The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...

A cutting-edge submersible uncovered hidden Antarctic wonders—then mysteriously disappeared, leaving scientists baffled.

3,000 Feet Beneath the Ocean, Scientists Found Spiders With a Hidden Superpower This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Scientists say the three species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy while helping prevent methane from escaping the deep sea.

Scientists are venturing to the Southern Ocean to study clouds and the world's cleanest air to better understand climate change and the impact of human activity on the Earth's atmosphere.

The Southern Ocean (or Antarctic Ocean), for example, is largely unbroken by land, which lets gigantic waves build and build. Waves 25 to 30 feet tall are standard there, she says.

A humpback whale tethered to the sea floor by a rope was rescued off the coast of Australia after a local fisherman spotted the animal in distress, video shows.

We used Sentinel-2 imagery time series to generate a vegetation map for the Northern part of the Antarctica Peninsula and offshore islands, including the South Shetlands. The vegetation cover was ...