In the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, small shrimp-like crustaceans called krill (Euphausia superba) swim in swarms of ...

Sea level rise is probably the single biggest impact of global warming, with effects on the majority of the world’s nations ...

New research shows that increased levels of plastic pollution in the Southern Ocean could reduce the ability of Antarctic ...

The year-round challenges these animals face include piercing cold ... While some Antarctic species have adapted to life on and around the ice, others navigate the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass three times faster now than in the 1990s and contributing to global sea level rise (Pic Reuters) Greenpeace reports that data from the National Sea Ice Data ...

Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...

A strange relationship has been observed between the shell and a passenger that rides on its back. Find out more.

Craig Rye, an oceanography researcher at of the University of Southampton in the UK, with colleagues, has published the findings in Nature Geoscience. Sea levels around Antarctica are rising ...

About 95% of the ocean has yet to be explored, but in what has been explored, there are some truly weird deep-sea creatures ...