It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how these frozen depths are changing.

I thought I’d try to get a picture of a seal as it came up for breath at a hole in the ice. I placed my camera and a motion sensor near the edge of a hole. The plan was that the motion sensor ...

Japanese researchers in Antarctica are deploying Weddell seals fitted out with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet at the South Pole. It allows ...

Where we can’t slide into holes left by Weddell seals and their busy teeth, we dig our own with an ice-drilling machine. Seals, when they need air, somehow find their way back to their hole ...

"Seals-Ready to Crack Pengu's Ice" is a project that leverages the natural rivalry between seals and penguins, symbolizing our dominance and strength in the Solana ecosystem. Just as seals are ...

Ringed seal mothers maintain breathing holes they’ve opened in land-fast ice — ice that is stabilized by its attachment to land — which are protected by snowdrifts above the holes.

Weddell seals are the most southerly breeding mammal ... rebreathers were set up in a heated hut and diving commenced from a predrilled hole in the ice a short walk away. Once in the water ...