A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...

More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by conventional wisdom, exist. In the permanent night and crushing pressure of the deep, ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As temperatures rise, the timing of the ice thaw changes. Vincent Denarie via Arctic Report Card The Arctic is transforming faster ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid Arctic geopolitical tensions, OACM promotes Ocean Unity by proposing Greenland as the Arctic’s first Certified SAFE ...

Climate change is starving the Arctic Ocean of essential nutrients, with the region's six largest rivers now delivering far less of the type of nitrogen that marine ecosystems need to survive, ...

We, Alaskan Indigenous peoples who have lived along the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska since time immemorial, respectfully ask President Joseph Biden to designate a U.S. Arctic Ocean marine national ...