A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the ...

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, who have spent more than a ...

The West’s newfound interest in the Arctic is making Moscow, which has longstanding geopolitical, economic and strategic ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

What began as political signaling is now becoming reality – through joint drills in the Arctic Ocean and growing ...

Ocean Advice, a member of the United Waterways Group based in Basel (Switzerland), has taken over the nautical and technical ...

Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Holdren and Arctic Initiative director Jennifer Spence say multiple new threats are ...

To this long list of disruptions, another lesser-known one must be added: The disappearance of sea ice ... does the ocean's color change prevail over other disruptions in the Arctic Ocean?