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 ...

When most people think about climate change, a few images come to mind: melting Arctic sea ice, record summer temperatures, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2024 Arctic report card is in, and the grade isn’t good. A new report just released by NOAA shows a rapidly melting Arctic has ...

Warmer Atlantic water from near Greenland is heating up the depths of the Arctic Ocean, which was previously thought of as one of the few places not significantly affected by climate change. The sea ...

Professor Laramie Jensen’s interest in inorganic and analytical chemistry led her to the ocean. And then to the North Pole.

Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for minerals like manganese, nickel, and cobalt that are needed to make electric vehicle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green summer tundra and the rolling Mulgrave Hills in northwestern Alaska's Cape Krusenstern National Monument are seen on July 11 ...

Arctic communities have long been noticing changes in the sea ice across Alaska, with ice setting up later most years and proving less dependable throughout the winter many years. The impacts have ...

Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...

Led by the European Research Council Synergy Grant project Into the Blue – i2B, the research team studied sediment cores collected from the seafloor of the central Nordic Seas and Yermak Plateau, ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher Colin Gleason is leading a multi-institutional team to study the Arctic Ocean under a $5.89 million NASA grant. The project will ...