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RRS James Clark Ross

As the UK approaches summer with high hopes of good weather, a team of adventurous scientists will be setting sail for far chillier climes. Thirty researchers from eight laboratories will leave the UK on 1 June 2012 to study the effect of ocean acidification on the Norwegian, Barents and Greenland Seas

They will travel as far north as polar ice will…

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Pillar supporting stalked barnacles and anemones

Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.

Working from the Royal Research Ship James Cook, scientists discovered new species of yeti crab, starfish, barnacles, sea anemones, and potentially an octopus.

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