The Arctic Ocean floor just got a little less mysterious. A team of international researchers has compiled the most detailed map of the Arctic seabed to date. It was published earlier this month ...

As Arctic sea ice continues to thin, the high-pressure system’s influence weakens, leading to the gyre’s projected collapse, the authors say. Weakening of Atlantic-Arctic circulation ...

The exception has been the Arctic Ocean, which has seen a sharp rise in POPs in its frigid waters over the past several decades. In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Concordia ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this ...

More information: Jens Søndergaard et al, Stable isotopes unveil ocean transport of legacy mercury into Arctic food webs, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60356-6 ...

Chinese scientists set off for the 13th Arctic Ocean scientific expedition on Wednesday aboard the Xuelong 2, the country's first domestically built polar icebreaker, departing from Shanghai.

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this ...