The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a net-negative carbon economy, the ...
In a new paper, climate scientists from Germany predict that when we humans eventually stop releasing greenhouse gases into ...
After more than a century acting as a climate buffer, the Southern Ocean may be preparing to release a vast store of heat, ...
Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar ...
My research shows that the South African population of southern right whales is being squeezed by climate change in the Southern Ocean. Their reproductive slowdown is a clear biological signal of ...
The region lies at the intersection of major tectonic boundaries that are known for generating powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity.
A new NASA-backed study—relying on data from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite—suggests that ...
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 ...
New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...
Under current warming, the ocean stores heat as deep waters mix with warmer layers above. At the same time, the loss of ...