Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the ...

While it is well documented that global warming is heating the world's oceans, there is now further evidence that even the ...

THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE—Climate change is melting sea ice at a quickening pace, and in the process rekindling dreams that have ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world, scientists announced this week. Specifically, March sea ice ...

The extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week, an ominous signal about the effects of climate change in the world’s ...

The Narwhal is known as the real-life unicorn of the sea. Learn why this Arctic whale has a spiral tusk, what it eats, and ...

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, and including chemists and ...