New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Jimmy Graham has spent a year and a half preparing to row the Arctic Ocean, and he'll set out in just a few days. Here's how ...

Arctic Ocean was covered by kilometre-thick ice shelf and filled entirely with freshwater, ‘surprising’ new evidence reveals. Extensive glaciation and lower sea levels cut off Arctic from ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined. The ...

Within the Arctic territory that the U.S. is intending to claim as its extended continental shelf is a topographical feature called the Chukchi Borderland, located 600 miles north of the Bering ...

Earlier this year a group of explorers found themselves on thin ice. Their special F-150 sunk to the depths below. Here's how they got it back.

Norway's government and two major opposition parties have agreed to open the Arctic Ocean for seabed mineral ... The planned area is located southwest of the Arctic island of Svalbard. Related Topics.

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest, and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions.

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...