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

The coldest country in the world offers a remote destination with rewarding experiences of northern lights viewing, polar ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

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 ...

This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) ...

Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

New research led by the University of California, Riverside, suggests that a slowdown in a significant ocean current may help reduce Arctic warming projections by up to 2 degrees Celsius by the ...

The Canadian Coast Guard’s only Arctic research icebreaker, the Amundsen left Quebec City yesterday for a 114 day scientific expedition through the Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay, the Davis Strait and ...

Sled dogs resting at the sea ice edge off Ittoqqortoormiit, Eastern Greenland. A new study done in Greenland has found oceans currents may be carrying legacy mercury to the Arctic. (Olivier Morin ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?