At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea ...

Standing tall with a vertical drop of an astonishing 11,500 feet (3,500 meters), it’s over three times the height of the ...

Arctic sea ice is shrinking as humans continue to ... submersible pumps under sea ice to pump seawater onto the surface. The water freezes as it pools across the ice like a huge puddle, creating ...

Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic ...

Unlike glaciers or ice sheets on land, Arctic sea ice is already in the ocean so its melting won't cause sea levels to rise. This is the same reason that a glass full of ice and water doesn't ...

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice-free Arctic could arrive sometime in the 2030s. A new study analyzing 300 ...

I’m mostly interested in the water column and the physical characteristics of seawater, such as its temperature and salinity. You can get a sense of Arctic sea ice from a satellite. But if you ...

A video overview of the Refuge Arctic program. In addition to measurements in the offshore ocean, we also took rock, water and ice samples from a number of different fjords and coastal glaciers.

Chukchi and Beaufort sea habitats. However, ringed seals are eating more saffron cod rather than the more nutritious Arctic cod. Arctic cod are very sensitive to water temperature. As waters warm ...

By filtering water and collecting small fragments of ... we are tracking the changing volume and routes of ships travelling through the Arctic Ocean. While our research is at an early stage ...