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A team of climate researchers and engineers is working with local Arctic communities to try to address melting sea ice.
The artists featured here weren’t overly concerned with anthropomorphization, striving instead to capture these creatures as ...
Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...
A giant AOT is coming from the ocean, the patrol of ships and planes arrived in time to stop the monster from going inland.
An exquisite epoxy diorama comes to life with Arctic animals including a polar bear, seal, and dolphin fish, all carefully painted with acrylics. The polar bear is placed on an ice floe made from ...
Colossal squid caught on video in the wild for the first time.Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute This week ... colours of the creatures that live under Arctic ice. I spent years pushing strollers ...
New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the consequences could extend far beyond the North. Known as the Beaufort Gyre ...
The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...
The Arctic Ocean is Earth's northernmost body of water. It encircles the Arctic, and flows beneath it. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the year—although that is starting to ...
While biodiversity loss in the Arctic Ocean may seem like a distant issue, the Shetland Islands lie further north than the Arctic Ocean’s southernmost waters. The Arctic Circle is only 380 miles ...
As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is waning due to melting permafrost and worsening coastal erosion, according to new research. A study ...
Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a short series examining maritime geography and strategic challenges in specific bodies of water, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Guinea and the ...