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 (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 sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw puzzle ... A barren white plain of ice and snow extended to the horizon in every ...

The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over ... some regions reached 16 °C above the past average, as the map of temperature anomalies shows. This will have reduced ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies ... other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...

Thinner Arctic sea ice may affect global ocean circulation Date: March 31, 2025 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing ...