But now, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), its course has been interrupted after becoming trapped in an ocean ...

Antarctic Circumpolar Current churns 6 billion cubic-feet of water per second Vortex slows in cool eras, like the Ice Age, but speeds up with global warming Researchers drilled 500- to 650-ft-long ...

A strong, stable vortex is like a skater spinning with their arms tucked closely in, holding in an area of cold air over the ...

After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...

We have tracked its route on satellite pictures since December when it finally broke free after being trapped in an ocean ...

The island is uninhabited due to its remoteness and lack of infrastructure; the only people on the island are temporary residents working at research stations.

There might be more than 16 times as much plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

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A23a weighs nearly a trillion metric tons, making it the world’s largest active iceberg. It calved from Antarctica in 1986, ...

BRIN radar detected the formation of convective storms over southern Sumatra and Lampung earlier this month, triggering ...

Cold air originating from the Arctic Ocean was dislodged earlier this week ... For starters, the Arctic polar vortex is a band of strong westerly winds that form in the stratosphere between ...