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

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute traveled to the Arctic Sea to study the effects of climate change, and they say ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

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

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

Researchers say tugboats could tow huge underwater parachutes around the ocean to manually power a vital ocean current.

Scientists have been struggling to understand why Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly and continues to decline. Read more ...

Saints legend Jimmy Graham, NOLA couple John & Hannah Huppi set to row across Arctic Ocean ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...