Forecasters say the region’s sea ice will dwindle to a strip above Greenland and Canada. There, polar bears and others will ...

The Arctic is one of the most extreme environments on Earth, yet it’s home to some of the most resilient and fascinating creatures found nowhere else in the world. North America’s Arctic region ...

Gray whales that normally spend their year moving between calving lagoons in Baja California and rich feeding grounds in the ...

Scientists aboard the Polarstern research vessel were sailing along in 2021 when they came upon an unusual iceberg floating through the Fram Strait, an Arctic passage between Greenland and the ...

The lush greenery of the Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the planet,” but really land plants are just half of the equation. The other lung dwells in the sea. Single-celled ...

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

Working with Indigenous observers on Alaska's northern coast, a research team has developed a way to improve the modeling of oceanic changes.  This work was led by the International Arctic Research ...

Deep down in the Arctic Ocean, life becomes bizarre. One might suppose that at its greatest depths, the icy, dark water would be inhospitable to much—but a new discovery reminds us that that is far ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

New study shows that 16 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s organic carbon comes from terrestrial sources, such as thawing permafrost and eroding coastlines. Climate change and the associated rising ...