With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

“The discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet,” SOI said in a press release. Usually, nutrients from the surface trickle ...

Such opportunities to see what lives in these areas are rare, said Andrew Thurber, a professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara who specializes in Antarctic research.

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

In our new research, we analyzed a century of data on how many species have been introduced to the icy continent and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands. Though there's little human presence here ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, according to researchers. On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from ...

But a new study suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which until now has been extremely stable, might begin to slow down in the next 25 years, with potentially severe consequences for ...

4/14/25 (LAPost.com) — A colossal iceberg named A-84 – comparable in size to Chicago – calved from the George VI Ice Shelf on Jan. 13, unveiling a seafloor area previously concealed for decades.