Freshwater from melting ice sheets can slow the critical ocean circulation that helps regulate the planet’s climate ...

Therefore, it is critical that we obtain a better understanding of how responses of terrestrial systems, such as the Antarctic, will impact oceanic systems because ultimately changes in ocean currents ...

Samples were taken at two Antarctic research stations at ... Climate change-induced shifts in the microbial food web of the Southern Ocean will have far-reaching consequences for the global ...

nourishing the entire food web. It is a platform upon which penguins breed, seals rest, and around which whales feed. The international bodies that manage Antarctica and the Southern Ocean under ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the most powerful ocean current on Earth ... altering the fragile food web of the ...

Plastic pollution combined with ocean acidification hinders the development ... numbers could have serious consequences for the Antarctic food web and krill fisheries management.

At a CCAMLR meeting in Australia last October, China blocked the extension of existing management measures for Antarctic krill, a key part of the Southern Ocean food web. Norway, China and South Korea ...