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

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as centuries-old artifacts are revealed for the first time. Take a look at some ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

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 ...