Ships operate in every ocean, and even the most remote waters aren't off-limits. When they anchor, they leave behind a ...

"Knowledge of the depth and shape of the sea floor is crucial for us ... and the leaking of heat toward Antarctica." Ultimately, mapping the Southern Ocean will deliver clues about the extent ...

Scientists reveal how ship anchor damage is scarring Antarctica’s seafloor and threatening fragile ecosystems.

Underwater footage released on June 9 shows the devastating impact of ship anchors on marine life and the ocean floor in the ...

Maritza Castro and other researchers react with excitement at images being picked up by a remotely operated vehicle along the Antarctic sea floor. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and ...

It is considered the fastest-melting glacier in East Antarctica ... Sea pigs live on the sea floor, between 3,300 to 19,500 feet (1 to 6 km) below the ocean's surface, and feed on the organic ...

the peer-reviewed study modeled the impact of melting Antarctic ice on deep ocean currents that work to flush nutrients from the sea floor to fish near the surface. Three years of computer ...

Now, only a few months later, a new team of scientists exploring the Antarctic Ocean floor has captured and documented several strange species that call the cold floor home. The crew on the RSV ...

Antarctic krill trap vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in the ocean floor through their sinking fecal pellets, a new study reports. The annual amount is similar to that stored by “blue ...

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these ...

Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to ...

After all, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the sea floor in an ... had been exploring the ocean floors of the Bellingshausen Sea along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula in ...