Voyage of discovery: uncovering deeply-held climate secrets to protect Antarctica for the future
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere
Published: 28 January 2026
A 56-day CSIRO voyage aboard RV Investigator is studying East Antarctica's Cook Ice Shelf, recovering a record 20.5m sediment core from 3,650m depth to reconstruct one million years of ocean conditions.
Keywords: Antarctic research, ice sheet stability, sediment core, paleoceanography, ancient DNA, climate change, East Antarctica
Study measuring the impacts of a deep-sea mining machine finds the abundance of animals at the site decreased by 37%
National Oceanography Centre
Published: 5 December 2025
The largest study of deep-sea mining impacts found a 37% reduction in seafloor animal abundance and 32% drop in species richness in areas impacted by a polymetallic nodule mining machine in the deep Pacific.
Keywords: deep-sea mining, marine biodiversity, seafloor ecology, polymetallic nodules, environmental impact, species richness, Pacific Ocean
New ONC partner observatory expands monitoring in Southern Ocean
Ocean Networks Canada
Published: 1 February 2026
Ocean Networks Canada and the Spanish National Research Council deployed new subsea cabled observatories in Antarctica in January 2026, doubling capacity to monitor environmental changes in the Southern Ocean.
Keywords: Southern Ocean, ocean observing, Antarctic monitoring, cabled observatory, real-time data, marine instrumentation
