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

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

The possibility of Siberian tigers in Alaska has fascinated many, with reports of sightings, strange photos, and even alleged attacks circulating over the years. While it's a thrilling idea, the ...

Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

The discovery of 693 stone artifacts inside Dargan Shelter, a high-elevation cave in Australia’s Blue Mountains, rewrites what we know about life during the last Ice Age. First Nations community ...

It is a several thousand kilometre long voyage and the ships will have to break through thick layers of sea-ice as they sail eastwards towards the Bering Strait. Ice maps show that a solid layer of ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet. Like the moon, the gravity of the ice sheets ...

A new study of ancient footprints in New Mexico supports the idea that humans reached North America much earlier than experts once believed.

In 2018, Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at MIT and head of the Summons Lab in MIT’s Department of Earth, led a team to study meltwater ponds on Antarctica’s McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Algae are a natural part of the Bering Sea ecosystem, but warming oceans have disrupted their cycle — causing harmful blooms to appear more frequently and with greater toxicity.

Last summer, about ten dead fur seals washed up on a beach on St. Paul Island, a small community in the middle of the Bering Sea. Tribal staff from the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, the ...