However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

New IMAS research has determined that overfishing – and eating – of one particular pest is helping to protect delicate marine ...

Maritza Castro and other researchers react with excitement at images being picked up by a remotely operated vehicle along the Antarctic sea floor. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and ...

In a new paper published on Friday in Nature Sustainability, a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic ... the long-spined Sea Urchin to overfish ...

Antarctic sea ice has again fallen to a near-record low as a new study shows the system is undergoing a significant "structural change". Scientists have been using satellite images over the past ...

Preliminary measurements show the sea ice around the continent has surpassed the previous record minimum set, in March 2017, of 2.1 million square kilometers, dropping to 1.98 million square ...