The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It remained grounded on the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea floor for more than 30 years, probably until it shrank just enough to loosen its grip on the seafloor. Then, the iceberg was carried away by ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2014), pp. 17-36 (20 pages) Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) were sampled in contrasting habitats: a seasonally ice-covered deep ocean (Lazarev Sea), ice ...

A23a broke off from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years before beginning its slow journey north in 2020. For months ...