We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

Stanford researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Since the satellite recording of ocean height began in 1993, the rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled.View on ...

Since the satellite recording of ocean height began in 1993, the rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled. Global sea levels rose faster than expected in 2024 as the world experienced ...