The Weddell Sea is as pristine as it is perilous. At more than 1.08million miles 2 (2.8million km 2) and home to over 14,000 species of animal – including significant populations of whales ...

Dr Clara Manno, a marine ecologist at BAS and part of the PICCOLO project, says: “We’re focusing on the Western Weddell Sea to find out more about some of the key processes that control how ...

Cartwright) Scientists have discovered that summer sea ice (*) in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometres – an area twice the size of Spain – in the ...

“The Weddell Sea,” wrote historian Thomas R Henry in ... Most voyages head to the Antarctic Peninsula’s western side, following a well-trodden conveyor-belt of landing sites, so I craved ...

His team deployed autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with high-resolution mapping capability to examine the sediments at the bottom of the western Weddell Sea. What the robots saw was a ...

Arrive at the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula ... the Endurance became trapped in formidable sea ice, the Weddell Sea certainly is high on the list for many polar adventurers.

FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf that rings the coast of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea. However, in the summer, warmer water ...

Sea ice concentration anomalies in the Southern Ocean were above average in the Weddell Sea and in a large sector of western Antarctica, and below average in sectors of the South Atlantic, the ...