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Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...
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 ...
A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key planetary boundary and posing serious threats to marine life. Ocean ...
Earth's oceans may seem like an expanse of the same water to us, but try telling that to a sea turtle or a whale shark. To trace the invisible routes that more than 100 migratory marine species ...
For about a decade, two research vessels — one American, the other Canadian — paired up on voyages in the Arctic Ocean, which ended around 2016, according to data from NOAA.
The state then sued. The geographic mystery thickened as Alaska submitted several topographical maps of the area from the 1950s, which it hadn’t entered during proceedings before the Interior Board of ...
A thrilling new seafloor map has revealed a massive area in the Arctic Ocean, stretching twice the size of France and six times larger than England. Part of the Seabed 2030 project-a global ...
When mapping the glacier calving front – the boundary between ice and ocean – traditionally human researchers painstakingly look through satellite imagery and make digital records. This process is ...
Books & the Arts / In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the ...
The Legendary Arctic Scramble Most of the modern Arctic myths and legends are spicing up mundane realities with added drama. For example, it’s common to see the Arctic referred to as a battleground ...
The first ice-free days of the Arctic Ocean could occur as soon as the 2020s or 2030s — as many as 10 years earlier than previous projections.