#Southern Ocean

Author: Douglas Fox / Source: Science News for Students The Arctic and Antarctic are the two coldest regions on Earth. Sitting at opposite poles, they might seem like mirror images of each other. But their environments are shaped by very different forces. And that’s why global warming is

Source: PhysOrg.com Sea ice cover in Antarctica shrank rapidly to a record low in late 2016 and has remained well below average. But what’s behind this dramatic melting and low ice cover since? Our two articles published earlier this month suggest that a combination of natural variability in the

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News When tiny sea algae get sick, they may sneeze the seeds of clouds. Phytoplankton (Emiliania huxleyi) infected with a virus shed the small calcium carbonate plates that make up their shells much more quickly than healthy phytoplankton. Kicked up by

Author: Brandon A. Weber / Source: Big Think Once hunted to near-extinction, humpback whales living in southern oceans near Antarctica are making a comeback. Some quick facts about humpbacks: They live long lives, about the same as humans. Treaties were signed to protect them in 1959;