With ice and permafrost thawing fast, nations are racing to exploit the Arctic's newly accessible treasures. Yet there are ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Scientists have discovered that substances made by Arctic Ocean microbes called actinobacteria can stop harmful bacteria from growing and prevent them from causing disease. Around 70% of existing ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... greens of the kelp there are deep red soft corals, that filter feed ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

TOKYO (Bernama-QNA): The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter of 2025 to its smallest extent since measurements began in 1979. According to the Qatar News Agency on Monday ...

A fraction of this carbon makes its way to the deep ocean, where it is recycled back into inorganic ... world to collect samples to measure particle flux, including in the Arctic Ocean, a region which ...