At Steinberg’s lab, researchers are examining how warming oceans — Antarctic krill need water colder than 4 degrees Celsius (39 Fahrenheit) to survive — are altering krill’s life cycle.

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

"Antarctic krill are the superheroes of the Southern Ocean," said Rod Downie, chief polar adviser at the wildlife charity WWF-UK. "They are tiny, unsung heroes that sustain incredible marine life ...

Submarine canyons around Antarctica tend to have less sea ice, higher sea surface temperatures, and more biomass such as phytoplankton blooms than the shelves they cut into. Phytoplankton blooms ...

How a supertiny crustacean makes life work in the Southern Ocean. For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are doing ...

Krill are just a few centimetres long fully grown, but are one of the most abundant animals on Earth Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny ...