Scientists return to the Southern Ocean this week (5 February 2025), as part of the BIOPOLE project, to answer fundamental ...

Currently wrapping up a season in the region, Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot will return to the Arctic for the 2026-27 winter ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific inquiries and accentuated the continent’s importance in regards to global ...

The south polar expedition consisting of two sloops-of-war, the Vostok, commanded by Fabian Bellingshausen ... They stayed at sea for 751 days and covered over 92,000 km. In addition to Antarctica ...

Unusually, negative anomalies in sea-ice extent almost surrounded the continent, with only the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas showing positive ice extent anomalies. Regional negative anomalies were ...

In a previous heatwave in 2022, a report published in August revealed, not a single chick survived the breeding season in four of five colonies under observation in the Bellingshausen Sea because ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

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New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

Images of the burning oil tanker Sounion are a stark reminder of Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. (Photo: Eunavfor Aspides) A reported ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas has ...