Seaweed is spreading across the Arctic Ocean due to climate change, reveals new research. Scientists say that global warming is having a divisive effect in the Arctic Ocean with species such as ...

There, seaweed forests are taking root in once-frigid fjords, with the potential to impact the ocean’s chemistry. A recent study published in the journal Journal of Geophysical Sunday, June 29, 2025 ...

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 ...

A team from the National Center for Polar and Ocean Research in Goa, India, led the Indian Arctic expeditions in 2017, 2022, and 2023. On these expeditions, researchers collected 20 seaweed ...

"Marine life like seaweed are really temperature-dependent and we know that as the ocean warms we'll see changes in distribution of d Thursday, June 19, 2025 Eye on the Arctic ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Most of the sunlight reaching the Arctic Ocean is reflected by sea ice, shielding ocean ecosystems from light. As Arctic sea ice continues to melt, larger areas of the ocean and seafloor become ...

Seaweed could smother polar underwater ecosystems as melting sea ice exposes the seafloor to more sunlight, new research shows. Animals that dwell on the seafloor of the Arctic and Antarctic spend ...

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest and also the coldest. The largest animal that has ever existed lives in an ocean habitat. The blue whale can grow up to 30m long and weigh 200 tonnes.

The Arctic’s greening from a warming climate isn’t just happening on land—it’s unfolding beneath the ocean surface too. There, seaweed forests are taking root in once-frigid fjords, with ...