The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a net-negative carbon economy, the ...

After more than a century acting as a climate buffer, the Southern Ocean may be preparing to release a vast store of heat, ...

In a new paper, climate scientists from Germany predict that when we humans eventually stop releasing greenhouse gases into ...

For over a century, the Southern Ocean has absorbed vast amounts of carbon and heat, delaying global warming. However, new ...

Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar ...

An unusual situation occurred in the Southern Hemisphere Tuesday afternoon, when six tropical storms, called cyclones in that part of the world, spun in the southern Indian and Pacific oceans at the ...

The region lies at the intersection of major tectonic boundaries that are known for generating powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Leipzig. Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. An international team has now taken an important step towards ...

A new NASA-backed study—relying on data from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite—suggests that ...

What happens when a long-standing planetary symmetry starts to unravel? For decades, Earth’s Northern and Southern ...

Penguins and polar bears do not share icy landscapes. Penguins evolved in the Southern Hemisphere, adapting to cold waters ...

Under current warming, the ocean stores heat as deep waters mix with warmer layers above. At the same time, the loss of ...