Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows the changing extent of Arctic sea ice. A vast layer of frozen ...

The Arctic – where polar, deep sea, and space intersect – offers a particularly revealing case for China’s ambitions in the “strategic new frontiers.” Last year, as part of China’s 15th Arctic ...

A struggle is taking place in the ice that will reshape the world: major powers are competing for the seabed, the routes, and the resources of an ocean that has not been fully mapped. On Saturday, ...

Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved matter contains large amounts of organic carbon which is flowing into the ...

Most of the sunlight reaching the Arctic Ocean is reflected to space by sea ice, effectively shielding ocean ecosystems from sunlight. As the Arctic sea ice continues its downward trend, larger areas ...

An “ice-free” Arctic won’t be free of ice. Tony Russell explains what changing sea ice could mean for shipping, navigation ...

The continuation of cool and stormy conditions over the Arctic Ocean during September bookends the strange summer of 2026.

South around Greenland, east along the Russian coast and through the Northwest Passage before Baffin Bay closes: 90 days, ...

For eight long months, they won't leave the confines of a laboratory drifting across the Arctic Ocean — an oval-shaped, ...

On July 23, R/V Kronprins Haakon cast off from the coal quay in Longyearbyen. Around 30 researchers and 20 crew members will spend the next 50 days sailing toward the North Pole as part of the ...

Arctic sea ice moves and spreads in ways that wind alone cannot explain, making it harder for scientists to predict where it will travel as the region warms. A new study suggests a more intuitive ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a region ...