Near Protocol has spent the past year expanding its sharding network, turning performance into its main calling card.

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare time capsule of life from 75,000 years ago. The bones and DNA traces of dozens ...

In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the consequences of climate change in the Arctic. They focused on a group of ...

Scientists believe that international shipping is partly responsible, as barnacles can travel in ballast water or by clinging ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia and China have signed a landmark agreement to develop and commercialise theNorthern Sea Route (NSR), after Beijing tested the route last month, that could slash ...

Three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of ...

A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...

CNN noted that Western countries are wary of using the route because of its proximity to Russia as well as environmental ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...

Kelps, here Saccharina latissima around Nuuk, Greenland, are brown macroalgae that form dense and extensive underwater forests along Arctic rocky shores. The ecological role of kelps can be compared ...