A new study in Antarctic waters has found a significant decrease of salinity, or freshening of the seawater surrounding the Ross Ice Shelf, indicating that ice shelf melt is caused by warming surface ...
USS Porter (DDG-78) entering the Black Sea. Photo by Yörük Işık‏ used with permission Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) arrived in Constanta, Romania, Monday morning, ...
USS Ross transits the Bosphorus with Hagia Sophia in the background. Photo by Yörük Işık‏ used with permission. The guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) entered the Black Sea over the weekend, ...
At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the ...
A landmark multinational agreement protecting Antarctica’s Ross Sea offers valuable lessons for similar global conservation pacts in the future, according to a new analysis coauthored by a CU Boulder ...
Scientists have long been concerned about the potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea level rise. Much of West Antarctica’s ice lies below sea level, and ...
Icebreaker aids stranded cruise ship in Antarctica's Ross Sea In the Ross Sea near Antarctica, USCGC Polar Star aided a cruise ship stuck in ice on Jan. 17, amid extreme cold and hazardous marine ...