Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes ...

A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

Coordinated measures highlight that bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice.

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

The west Antarctic Peninsula experiences a higher ... more microorganisms in the oceans than all the marine animals combined. Climate change-induced shifts in the microbial food web of the ...

Introduction Climate change and global warming are the defining issues of our epoch and have made many issues tha ...