Beautiful moment Arctic sunset bathes family of polar bears in warm glowing light. By EMMA THOMAS . Published: 06:45 EDT, 5 November 2013 | Updated: 06:47 EDT, 5 November 2013 ...

ON SEPTEMBER 16th 2012, at the height of the summer melt, the Arctic Ocean’s ice sheet had shrunk to an area of 3.41m square kilometres (1.32m square miles), half what it was in 1979. And its ...

I am far north in the Arctic Ocean, and polar winter has just begun. ... meaning that the sun will disappear with a final sunset in the fall and reappear with an initial sunrise in the spring.

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

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Arctic heat wave 600 times more likely due to climate change, study finds 00:54. Just 15 years from now, the Arctic Ocean may be functionally ice-free for part of the year, a new study has found ...

For comparison, recent years have seen the Arctic Ocean with a minimum sea ice cover in September of around 1,274,000 square miles, which is about a third of the area of the US.

The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research.. The study, published Wednesday in the ...

The first ice-free days of the Arctic Ocean could occur as soon as the 2020s or 2030s — as many as 10 years earlier than previous projections.

At least twice, the Arctic Ocean was a freshwater pool cut off from other oceans and capped with almost 3,000 feet of ice. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research.. The study, published Wednesday in the ...