Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

Do you know that humans have only explored 5% of the ocean? 95% of the ocean is still unexplored, holding countless mysteries ...

1 Geomicrobiology, Marine Geosystems, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany 2 Benthic Biogeochemistry, Marine Geosystems, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

Arctic sea ice is melting fast, weakening a key ocean current called the Beaufort Gyre. If it releases too much freshwater, it could disrupt the vital AMOC, which helps regulate climate across the ...

Thinner Arctic sea ice may affect global ocean circulation Date: March 31, 2025 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing ...

Researcher Céline Heuzé from the University of Gothenburg, together with colleagues Marylou Athanase and Raphael Köhler from Germany, has studied the future of one of the major ocean currents in the ...

Exploring the far reaches of our planet often reveals how beautifully diverse and harsh Earth can be. As advanced as human civilization has become, there remain places so extreme that survival is ...

A unique ocean vessel arrived in Liverpool this week ... particularly Antarctica and the Arctic. Before she was renamed as Tara, her former captain Sir Peter Blake was exploring the Amazon ...

Beyond remote islands, ocean ... Arctic Ocean, an area that tends to have more polar bears and seals than people. A Japanese research agency documented plastic bags and soda cans in the Mariana ...

Local Gary Van Meter snapped this photo on June 18, 2024, with his copy of Coastal View News, while standing in the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, as part of a 12-week trip. Van Meter drove from ...