Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries. Ashild Onvik Pedersen, a scientist who is armed with a rifle in ...

China has claimed a milestone in Arctic exploration as it conducted the first manned deep-sea dive in the ice-covered waters of the region, an emerging zone of global competition. Newsweek has ...

Alexandra Jahn receives funding from the National Science Foundation. As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier in the year. Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past ...

The U.S. Coast Guard shadowed two Chinese research ships operating in disputed waters within the Arctic Ocean last week, the Coast Guard announced Wednesday. The icebreakers Ji Di and Zhong Shan Da ...

New research shows that human activity is even more responsible for melting Arctic glaciers than previously thought. Yoon Jin-ho, an environmental engineering professor at South Korea's Gwangju ...

From 16 th August to 19 th September 2025, the Norwegian research vessel R/V Kronprins Haakon will be sailing into the Arctic Ocean for an expedition organised and funded through the prestigious ...

The scientific community has gotten very good at predicting where storms will hit, but it is more difficult to predict storm intensity. That’s why researchers at the University of Delaware are looking ...

Former NFL tight end Jimmy Graham has conquered a new frontier -- not on the football field, but across the frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean. According to the New Orleans Saints' team website, Graham ...