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By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...
The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast ...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current may be moving 20% slower by 2050, according to research described in The Conversation. Surrounding Antarctica in a ring, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the ...
A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...
Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...
Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth's strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050 ...
Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming consequences of fossil fuel emissions. A place this remote and isolated makes a ...
Scientists used one of Australia's most powerful supercomputers to model how melting ice sheets might change the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which plays a major role in global climate patterns.
Encased in a 4 kilometre thick layer of ice is a unique archive of our planet over the last million of years: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images ...
Not only is it heating up, but Antarctica's circumpolar current is "warming more rapidly than the global ocean as a whole." Antarctica's climate change issues were recently highlighted by a new ...
But a new study suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which until now has been extremely stable, might begin to slow down in the next 25 years, with potentially severe consequences for ...