The deep-sea in Antarctica has recently cooled down dramatically. The Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven claimed that it is until now unclear, whether this dramatic deterioration of the temperature around the south-pole was due to the cooling of the polar streams. For the last decades the south-polar sea had heated up. This trend has now been breached for the first time, says the team around the oceanographer Eberhard Fahrbach.Satellite imagery has also shown a huge increase of the mass of the ice caps that has ever been recorded in an antarctic summer. Whether the crash in temperatures is a sign for a changing trend could only be determined over a period of the following years. 58 scientists were in the antarctic ocean to analyze the polar summer from February to April.

Via N-TV - Translated on the fly by Lars Hilse - Those who find typos may keep them.