A new ensemble of marine ecosystem models aims to improve understanding of how climate change will affect the waters ...

Just this month, researchers identified that melting freshwater from Antarctica's glaciers is altering the water chemistry of ...

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...

The Southern Hemisphere is a world of its own, filled with breathtaking landscapes, unique wildlife, and natural phenomena ...

Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.

Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.

Shavonna Bent of Braintree knew from childhood visits to Woods Hole Science Aquarium in Falmouth, MA that she wanted to find a way to get on board its research ship. With the help of a VSAC counselor ...