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

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

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

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The document describes oceans as facing a “global emergency,” ravaged by warming temperatures, plastic pollution, and the extinction of wildlife. U.N. officials and scientists say that could ...

The Healy cruise was part of a project carried out over several years to map the extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean beyond the nation’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

For about a decade, two research vessels — one American, the other Canadian — paired up on voyages in the Arctic Ocean, which ended around 2016, according to data from NOAA.

A new study has revealed that Siberian rivers are contributing to rising pollution in the Arctic as warming temperatures and altered ocean currents change how pollutants travel. The findings, from ...

A thrilling new seafloor map has revealed a massive area in the Arctic Ocean, stretching twice the size of France and six times larger than England. Part of the Seabed 2030 project-a global ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Weather Arctic blast sinks wind chills to a dangerously cold zero to 15 below Actual high temperatures will only reach the upper teens to around 20 degrees in the Boston area. Coats for all were ...