A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

Imagine a cruise, and chances are you’re picturing a gleaming white ocean liner, overflowing with pools, theatres and bars, cutting across the open seas towards a destination that is, at the very ...

Scientists have raised the alarm over Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' after a new study revealed that underwater 'storms' ...

A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging more than 4,000 meters. The findings provide an unprecedented view into how ...

The Indian Ocean is the only ocean named after a country, India. Learn how the Indian Ocean was given its title and also get into science-backed facts about its unique warm waters, monsoon currents, ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Arctic, from the whole concept of the North Pole, to the number of penguins who ...

A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are shifting and how that could ...