Antarctica is famous for its frigid temperatures, desolate landscape, penguins, and the predators who eat them. That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and ...
In a remote part of Antarctica's western Weddell Sea, an area once hidden beneath a 200-meter-thick ice shelf, scientists have uncovered a new and unusual phenomenon: extensively maintained fish ...
July 15 - At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, remote and ice-bound, this vast area may seem disconnected from ...
The WISSARD Deep Field Site is located 530 miles from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Ross Sea (Photo by J. Raine) UC Santa Cruz researchers collected sediment samples from beneath the ...
Extreme lows in sea ice induce many changes in the physical, ecological, and societal systems of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. A: an average sea ice summer. B: an extreme low sea ice summer. In B ...