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Researchers look into the amount of cosmic dust in ocean sediment cores of various areas in Arctic to figure out the area's ...

In a study published November 6 in the journal Science, researchers used space dust to make a 30,000-year timeline of ice ...

Researchers investigated how the "pacificization effect" enhanced Arctic sea ice retreat thousands of years ago. Their data could help paint a clearer picture of the current rate of ice melt and the ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual cyanobacteria, enrich the ocean with nitrogen, fueling algae growth that ...

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 ...

But spending time on the ice with people who rely on it for their way of life provides a different perspective. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed ...

On Sept. 24, 2025, a rumor spread online that Norway's engineers had created a novel invention to help Arctic seals: floating "ice pods" that give the animals somewhere to "rest, raise pups, and ...

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...