As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition.

Polar blue carbon research finds that Arctic fjords, Southern Ocean kelp forests, and ice algae -- spanning 20% of the global ...

Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved matter contains large amounts of organic carbon which is flowing into the ...

Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows the changing extent of Arctic sea ice. A vast layer of frozen ...

Arctic sea ice reached its 2026 annual minimum on September 12, covering about 4.6 million square kilometers (1.78 million ...

President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday reaffirmed Korea's push to develop a new shipping route through the Arctic Ocean, saying ...

On July 23, R/V Kronprins Haakon cast off from the coal quay in Longyearbyen. Around 30 researchers and 20 crew members will spend the next 50 days sailing toward the North Pole as part of the ...

Warmer Atlantic water from near Greenland is heating up the depths of the Arctic Ocean, which was previously thought of as one of the few places not significantly affected by climate change. The sea ...

WWF is heavily represented within 'Ocean in Google Earth', a new feature of Google Earth that will allow visitors to see the searchable online replica of the marine planet. Find out how you can take ...

The western Arctic Ocean is acidifying four times faster than other oceans as ice melts at record speeds. Ocean acidification occurs when seawater absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With ...

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea and gannets dive. While biodiversity loss in the Arctic Ocean may seem ...