In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth. Scientists have tracked an unexpected and rapid rise in surface salinity ...

However, a new shark discovery has scientists jumping with excitement. Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient ocean layers locked away carbon, cooling Earth’s lukewarm interglacials, new isotopic study shows. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

A shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could trigger a substantial release of stored ocean ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that today’s climate models ...

In a world affected by climate change, the Southern Ocean plays an outsized role. It absorbs up to 40% of the human-caused emissions taken up by the oceans while also being home to some of the world's ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the world’s largest ocean current, carrying a hundred times more water than all the ...

Human emissions have pushed the Earth into an energy imbalance, the effects of which are most clearly felt in the ocean. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the ocean has absorbed more than ...

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds that ...