Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean—between Antarctica and other continents—will eventually release heat absorbed ...

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by ...

As the Southern Ocean slowly releases heat it has absorbed from a warming atmosphere, regions as far away as East Asia and ...

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population ...

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

An international team of researchers has now shown why this is the case and how the distant Southern Ocean determines precipitation on the Pacific coasts. The study was designed by Hanjun Kim from ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean -- between Antarctica and other continents -- will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in ...