A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

A squad of graduate students aboard the icebreaker Araon is getting a crash course in the slow and physical work of ocean exploration.

For much of North America, the last month has been an icy, frozen trudge. But from the right vantage point, it had a certain ...

Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

To this day, the oceans are still one of the most mysterious places on the planet. Because they cover a whopping 70% of the ...

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more ...