Whales can also help cycle nutrients in the ocean when they disturb the seabed as they feed. Gray whales ( Eschrichtius ...

Battered by Antarctic storms in the southern Andes at the very tip of Chile, I met my biggest mental outdoor challenge yet on ...

The impact of forces like El Niño events was particularly prominent in places like the tropical Pacific Ocean, subpolar North Atlantic Ocean and the Southern Ocean. “It turns out that the way we ...

the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and global permafrost regions – are already “at risk of being crossed due to warming”. However, tipping elements have so far largely been studied in isolation. Most ...

These colossal creatures can produce nearly 950 liters of urine per day, and this waste is far from useless. By releasing it ...

Monitoring showed it took 20 years to travel from the subpolar to subtropical North Atlantic waters. It also showed in about 2000, a rise in temperature and salinity in the sub polar region.

The camera lies of course. We might look like the subpolar bottom end of the world, but we are actually in Mediterranean latitudes. The map lies too. The Mercator projection of the world is ...