New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

Arctic sea ice is ice floating in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, Canada and northwest Europe. ... Map from NASA Earth Observatory showing the ice extent on the day of its annual maximum.

Shrinking Arctic ice redraws the map for internet cable connections A new 14,500-km subsea cable in the Arctic could reroute data traffic away from vulnerable choke points. ... Scientists recently ...

A collaborative project Seabed 2030 has made significant progress by mapping a new area in the Arctic Ocean. The initiative, which aims to map the entire global seafloor by 2030, utilizes advanced ...

Over the past 25 years, the amount of summer Arctic sea ice has diminished by more than 1 million square kilometers. As a result, vast areas of the Arctic Ocean are now, on average, ice-free in ...

Oceanography, Vol. 24, No. 3, The Changing Arctic Ocean: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (2007–2009) (SEPTEMBER 2011), pp. 52-64 (13 pages) ABSTRACTThis paper reviews current knowledge ...

Thawing ice in the Arctic may open up new routes for internet cables that lie at the bottom of the ocean and carry most international data traffic.