Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A23a made global headlines in late November (2023) when it moved out of the Weddell Sea sector into the Southern ... it stretches as far as the eye can see.” The RRS Sir David Attenborough ...

In this area, the infection has severely affected crabeater seals. After sampling seven areas of the Weddell Sea (including Devil, Beak, Beagle, and Heroína islands), the CSIC-UNESPA Antarctic ...

M/V Ortelius of Oceanwide Expeditions reached the southernmost point ever recorded by a non-icebreaker passenger vessel in the Weddell Sea at 78°03.471’S.

Weddell seals are the most southerly breeding of all the mammals. Because they are air-breathing furry mammals, seals have to give birth on land (or ice). Seals can’t give birth in the water ...