A small robotic float, lost for nearly nine months beneath Antarctica’s thick ice, has unexpectedly resurfaced—carrying ...

Antarctica is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet, putting its vast ice sheets, surrounding oceans, and ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

The vast ring of water encircling Antarctica holds more heat than any other part of the global ocean, quietly shaping the ...

And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...

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

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

The Antarctic, or Southern, Ocean is the world’s least-explored and least understood. But a team of scientists in land-locked Boulder has recently made a discovery that may lead to a better ...

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...

Deep ocean water in the Antarctic is heating up and shrinking, with potentially far-reaching consequences for climate change and deep ocean ecosystems, according to a report. “Antarctic bottom water” ...

Today's Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) funding announcement is welcome but will be of little comfort to the Hobart-based Antarctic and Southern Ocean researchers that are still suffering a ...