Instead, the Arctic Ocean appears to have been covered by seasonal sea ice—leaving open water and life-sustaining conditions even during the harshest periods of cold periods during the last ...

“Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

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 ...

Former NFL Great Jimmy Graham’s Next Challenge: the Arctic Ocean The star tight end is about to embark on a journey that will test the limits of human endurance.

The soldiers clambered onto snowmobiles and disappeared into a whiteout, snaking across the frozen Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Members of the Canadian and American militaries ...

On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI ...

Netflix will release its OceanGate documentary about the ill-fated sub, Titan, in June 2025. Get the details on the doc.

When China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin meet, one theme surfaces with clockwork regularity: Arctic collaboration. In every joint statement issued during their state visits since ...

The West’s newfound interest in the Arctic is making Moscow, which has longstanding geopolitical, economic and strategic interests in the region, nervous.

Can We Refreeze the Arctic’s Ice? Scientists Test New Geoengineering Solutions Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate change ...