In a world where towering waterfalls like Niagara Falls and Angel Falls capture our imagination, there is one waterfall so ...

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

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

Imperialist rivalries have extended to one of the most environmentally fragile regions of the globe, explains In September ...

It was assumed that the permafrost arrived here towards the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and covered the ancient permafrost on the Arctic shelf. However ...

The team has discovered large underwater ice formations in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. This discovery reveals an unanticipated mechanism for the ongoing formation of submarine permafrost ice. Image ...

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic’s melting ice, which holds promise for improving the autonomy of marine vehicles, aiding in ...

In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter's day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group of researchers drill a hole through the ice and insert a hydrogen ...

Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean: a volcano-like structure off the coast of Alaska. They say it’s rising more than 500 meters ...

Marine mammals struggling to feed their young are abandoning key habitats as underwater noise from human activity grows louder – a threat that's now been recognised by dozens of countries in an ...

Winter sea ice in the Arctic just hit a record low Just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed as of March 22, the smallest maximum extent since satellite recordkeeping began in the 1970s ...