Discovered by English explorer James Weddell, the Weddell Sea wasn’t navigable until after the 19th century due to its ice-choked waters. It served as the backdrop to Ernest Shackleton’s famed ...

For more than a century, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's 144-foot long ship "Endurance" was lost off the coast of Antarctica beneath the icy Weddell Sea. In 2022, the ship was found ...

An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough. National Geographic, on June 10, revealed the "history-making sighting" of a massive, three ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Even if we managed to limit global warming to 1.5°C — which, at present, we’re not on track to do — sea levels will still be rising at a rate that will be difficult to manage by the end of ...

It was late on Christmas Eve and the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea weren't cooperating. The scientists and crew onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship R.V. Falkor (too ...

Until the world gets serious about cutting greenhouse gas emissions, sea ice will retreat – and more chicks will fall into the icy water before they are ready to launch.

Explore the North Sea's marine renewable energy projects with our detailed map, showcasing offshore wind, wave, and tidal sites, along with operator information, generating capacity, and status.

It was spotted at a depth of approximately 2152 meters in the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea. Researchers, however, have not been able to confirm the squid’s sex or age from the footage.

A daughter trying to fulfil her dead mum's wish of travelling the world threw her ashes into the sea - but they washed up at ...

Scientists monitoring the world's largest penguin species used satellites to assess sixteen colonies in the Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea and Bellingshausen Sea, representing nearly a third of ...

Arctic sea ice on July 19, 2022 as captured on a NASA Gulfstream V plane. Sea ice could extend as far south as the UK if a crucial system of ocean currents collapses, a new study has found.