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By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current may be moving 20% slower by 2050, according to research described in The Conversation. Surrounding Antarctica in a ring, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the ...
In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched ...
Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...
But there's also a much less well-known behemoth of a current that sits just to Australia's south. It's called the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and it's enriched with eddies and jets.
Encased in a 4 kilometre thick layer of ice is a unique archive of our planet over the last million of years: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images ...
We identified and examined 4060 swarms within the main flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Scotia Sea) using a combination of an EK60 echosounder, a 153.6 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler, ...
Not only is it heating up, but Antarctica's circumpolar current is "warming more rapidly than the global ocean as a whole." Antarctica's climate change issues were recently highlighted by a new ...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the planet’s most powerful ocean circulation system, could slow by 20 percent by 2050 due to melting Antarctic ice. Researchers suggest that the influx of ...
But a new study suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which until now has been extremely stable, might begin to slow down in the next 25 years, with potentially severe consequences for ...