On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It ...
according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Rapid warming has already caused a significant southward shift and contraction in the distribution of Antarctic krill – a keystone ...
A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...
Giant sea spiders, ice fish and octopuses are ... one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. “We seized upon the moment, changed our expedition plan ...
Preliminary results suggest this year’s maximum extent of sea ice cover is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the National Snow and Ice ... low minimum for Antarctic sea ice at the ...
A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...
Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic ... is home to giant corals ...