Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

We traveled to Canada’s harsh Northwest Territories to report on a joint U.S.-Canadian military exercise aimed at projecting ...

Arctic ocean is warming at record pace, threatening collapse of AMOC and heightening risk of severe coastal flooding in ...

Glacial troughs in Antarctica promote mixing of warm and cold water, affecting global climate. A new study explores whether ...

The Arctic is a region at the top of Earth consisting of an ocean—the Arctic Ocean—more or less surrounded by land. The Antarctic is at the bottom of Earth and is a continent surrounded by ocean.

Inorganic Hg comes into the ocean from the atmosphere primarily, although in the Arctic coastal inputs from rivers, glaciers and groundwater are more important than other oceans," says Mason ...

That's perhaps to be expected, given Russia's territorial stake in the region: Russia spans 53% (or over 22,990 miles) of the Arctic Ocean coastline, and out of its population of around 146 ...

Greenland sharks are the largest fish in the Arctic Ocean, as well as the only shark found there year-round. Their population levels are not well known, but they are thought to be in decline ...

But mining and climate change have caused the permafrost to melt, raising fears that the arsenic could "slither into" a nearby freshwater lake, "snake" along a river and enter the Arctic Ocean ...