Marine Science Archives - British Antarctic Survey

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Ocean currents shape fish survival in South Georgia’s fjords

4 December, 2025

Scientists have uncovered how changing ocean currents in South Georgia’s fjords could affect the survival of young mackerel icefish. The species is a key component of the island’s rich marine …

A close up of a long, cone-shaped species which is coloured white at its tip, tapering down to a beige, then fleshy pink colour at its middle, and returning to a translucent beige at the widest part of its cone. It is pictured in the deep sea, and so the background is pitch black

New deep-sea mollusc species co-habits with anemone

3 December, 2024

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusc, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature …

Plastic reduces how krill remove carbon into deep ocean

20 November, 2024

New research shows that increased levels of plastic pollution in the Southern Ocean could reduce the ability of Antarctic krill, a tiny shrimp-like crustacean, to help take CO2 from the atmosphere.  The …

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Ocean currents shape fish survival in South Georgia’s fjords

New deep-sea mollusc species co-habits with anemone

Plastic reduces how krill remove carbon into deep ocean