Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is nearly impenetrable to human exploration. For now at least. Its inaccessibility and seemingly stable ...

Scientists on a German submarine discovered what they believe is the largest fish nursery in the world, with approximately 60 million icefish nests, at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) international expedition will commence. Up to ...

Sub Sea team retrieves the AUV after a test dive on February 15, 2022. Credit – Endurance22 Expedition / Photo by Esther Horvath After an 11-day voyage aboard a South African icebreaker, the ...

Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at depths exceeding 2,000 meters. This was the main finding of an article ...

New research published in the Journal of Climate finds that the Weddell Sea in Antarctica is warming five times faster than the rest of the ocean. The study comes from oceanographers from the Alfred ...

The ice-covered Weddell Sea is a challenging place to study, but it’s home to a diverse community of fish, brittle stars, sponges, cephalopods, marine birds and mammals. Another expedition to the ...

Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea The AWI's underwater recordings confirm: minke whales prefer the shelter of sea ice, while ...

Scientists have discovered that the summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea sector of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometers -- an area twice the size of Spain -- in the last five years, ...

Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at depths exceeding 2,000 meters. Over the past three decades, the depths ...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean ...