Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the ocean’s salt levels, potentially disrupting the vital Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with profound global consequences.
For the first time, oceans beyond national water boundaries have been officially recognised for protection.
Melting ice will affect critical Antarctic ocean currents and threaten fish stocks around the world, new study finds.
The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like no other and best described in superlatives. Here’s everything you need to know about why it’s so bloody important.
The oceans are filled with sounds produced by animals. However, a recent study shows that ocean sounds are diminishing due to nutrient pollution and ocean acidification.
Over the past 50 years space exploration has revealed that oceans exist on the moons of other planets in our Solar System. But what exactly – if anything – lives beneath the surface of these otherworldly seas?
Somewhere between one- and two-thirds of all species in the world’s oceans are still unknown to science, says study.
The temperature of waters east of Tasmania are rising rapidly, as balmy ocean currents shift toward the poles.
Just as the ocean is revealing its mysteries, we’re finding out how delicate its many ecosystems are.