Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

A new threat is here, and scientists say there's no way to stop it, as even remote parts of the world are seeing microplastic ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the ...

Thanks to its strong currents and upwelling of deep, cold waters, the Southern Ocean teems with nutrients and supports a great abundance of life, from microscopic algae to krill, fish, seals, whales, ...

The vast ice fields of barren whiteness stretch toward the horizon, creating one of the most isolated environments on the ...

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