The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the nature journal Scientific Data.The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the form of a digital gridded database ...

Melting Arctic sea ice may be about to ... an Arctic sea route north ... Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut ...

As global warming melts sea ice across the Arctic, shipping routes once thought impossible — including directly over the North Pole — may open up by midcentury. But high costs may keep the new ...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR), the shortest shipping route for freight transportation between Europe and countries of the Asia-Pacific region, straddles four seas of the Arctic Ocean. Running to ...

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be a thing of the past by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, an international study ...

Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected Date: June 3, 2021 Source: University College London Summary: Sea ice thickness is inferred by measuring the height of the ice above the water, and ...

As a follow-up to the Arctic treks he participated in back in 2015 and 2019, Mayer said his team is part of the GEOEO North of Greenland 2024 Expedition, which is set to become the first ship to ...

Russian claims extend beyond the North Pole, while Canada’s claims to 1.2 million square kilometers of Arctic Ocean seabed and subsoil, also encompass the North Pole. The newly mapped U.S ...

An increased amount of thick sea ice flowing south from the Arctic Ocean shortened the ice-free shipping season in several parts of the Northwest Passage between 2007 and 2021, according to an ...

New depth map of the Arctic Ocean. University of Barcelona. Journal Scientific Data DOI 10.1038/s41597-020-0520-9 ...

Climate change is increasingly opening up the Northwest Passage, an Arctic sea route north of the Canadian mainland. Could it herald an era of more cargo shipping around the top of the world? Back ...