The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming ...

A collaborative research team has discovered that the Southern Ocean releases substantially more carbon dioxide (CO2) during ...

Laser satellites have exposed a hidden winter carbon surge in the Southern Ocean, rewriting climate science’s polar playbook.

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery won’t be quick.

A new study has revealed that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the winter than ...

The expedition also revealed a new species of armoured and iridescent scale worms, called Eulagisca sp. nov., as well as ...

The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat caused by greenhouse emissions, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials.” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

Scientists from The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census made the discovery during two 2025 expeditions with the Schmidt ...

Scientists have discovered 30 new deep-sea species in the Southern Ocean, including the ominously nicknamed “death-ball” ...