Less than 30% of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning scientists still have a clearer view of ...

Our knowledge of these vertical movements has been limited by a lack of detailed data, but new research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment is providing new insights into how ...

It transports far more than 100 times as much water as all of the Earth's rivers combined: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current rushes around the southern continent unhindered by land masses and is ...

A remote island between Australia and Antarctica is showing signs of a dramatic climate transformation. Scientists found storms over Macquarie Island now unleash much heavier rainfall than they did ...

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...