And, if the additional melting of the Greenland ice sheet in the subarctic ocean is accounted for, the study says the AMOC could be 30 percent weaker by 2040: 20 years sooner than initially projected.

This fresh meltwater flowing into the subarctic ocean is lighter than salty seawater. So less water descends to the ocean depths. This reduces the southward flow of deep and cold waters from the ...

A group of researchers has discovered why the western subarctic Pacific Ocean, which accounts for only 6 percent of the world's oceans, produces an estimated 26 percent of the world's marine ...

In the frigid waters of the sub-Arctic ocean lurks a mysterious and slow-moving beast known as the Greenland shark. It’s a massive animal that can grow up to 20 feet in length. Now, new research ...

The researchers published their review in the June 1 issue of the journal Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. “We conducted a review of prior observational and modeling studies on Arctic-subarctic ...

Our data show that the surface waters of the subarctic Pacific contain a pool of colloidal Cu that was not observed in the subtropical South Pacific Ocean. Both soluble and colloidal Cu in the surface ...