Southern Ocean

Environment

The Southern Ocean is Earth’s climate ‘engine room’

A shipboard monitoring system is giving researchers much-needed measurements of Antarctic wind, waves and ice

Environment

Ocean waves and winds are getting higher and stronger

Using billions of satellite measurements, new research shows ocean waves and the winds that generate them have been increasing for the last 30 years

Environment

Exploring the birthplace of monster waves

An expedition to the Antarctic explores where rogue waves begin, and what these monsters tell us about the way the ocean behaves and interacts with global climate change

Environment

Hiding in plain sight

An ocean once thought of as free of pollution is a source of a particularly toxic form of mercury called methylmercury