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 ...

Damage to an underwater fibre optic cable in the Baltic Sea, running from Ventspils in Latvia, to the Swedish island of Gotland, was detected last Sunday. Image: Pic: Reuters "It is suspected that ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Russian explorers FF Bellingshausen and MP Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific enquiries and highlighted the continent's ...

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 ...