A new seafloor map reveals an area in the Arctic Ocean twice the size of France and six times the size of England. This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the ...

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 ...

and Danish claims overlapping each other over an area covering much of the Arctic Ocean. Out of an area of approximately 2.8 million square kilometers located outside of the Arctic nations ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current in the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Alaskan and Canadian coasts. It transports liquid freshwater – naturally occurring ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new joint study from the University of Gothenburg and the German Alfred ...

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, this ...

By storing or releasing freshwater, the Beaufort Gyre influences the oceanic properties both within the Arctic and as far away as the North Atlantic.