More NASA satellites looked down on huge cracks forming in sea ice in Canada's far north. What is it? The Amundsen Gulf is named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who, in the early 1900s ...

Sea ice in the Amundsen Gulf, Canada begins to break apart. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview) ...

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean.

A breakthrough study has uncovered that the Southern Ocean's power to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere fluctuates dramatically depending on winter sea ice. When sea ice lingers longer into ...

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean. In years when sea ice lasts ...

The BAS team concluded that changes in all three species are strongly linked to shifts in sea ice, when it forms and melts each year, and how long it lasts. The new results, which have been ...

Images from the exciting encounter, which occurred 2152 meters (1.34 miles) deep in the Weddell Sea, show the vibrantly-colored squid with scratches and sucker marks on its body.

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital. The turtle was ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, "virtual unfolding," and paleography, i.e ...