New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

New research reveals Antarctic sea ice has hit record lows three times since 2017, creating cascading effects on global ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Beneath the ocean surface, a global mission is underway that could reshape our understanding of our planet. Inspired by Sir ...

A new discovery in the remote Arctic region has stunned scientists. An international team of researchers recently found a vast collection of underwater structures along the edge of the Canadian ...

A groundbreaking discovery has unveiled the presence of black smoker hydrothermal vents deep beneath the Arctic Ocean along the Knipovich Ridge, nearly two miles below the surface. This first-ever ...

However, these models are too coarse to resolve key ocean processes and to address the complex interplay between ocean dynamics and the bathymetry of the Arctic region. Here, we propose to construct a ...

Towed camera systems are commonly used to collect photo and video images of the deep seafloor for a wide variety of purposes, from pure exploratory research to the development of management plans.

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 ...

Despite covering an area of some 20 million sq km (7.7 million sq mi), most of which is occupied by ocean, the Arctic Circle is an almost entirely subsea cable-free zone.