The Donut Hole (and two other small ones to the south) at the center of the Arctic Ocean. (Cryopolitics) On June 4, I wrote about issues surrounding the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. June ...

Greenland’s ice sheet, one of the largest in the world, is retreating at an alarming rate, creating profound impacts on both ...

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 ...

The Arctic Ocean is not as salty as it used to be — and now researchers say climate change is to blame. The effects of the changes may already be in motion, too.

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 ...

This stratifies the surface water of the Arctic Ocean, producing a low-density surface layer that is isolated from the heat in the deeper ocean, enabling it to freeze.All that fresh water carries ...

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 ...

It turns out that Jones Sound’s bone-chilling waters are home to a magnificent array of undersea creatures: sea stars, sea spiders, sea anemones, quirky bottom dwellers called sea-pigs (pictured), ...

The paper predicts: “The CMIP6 models simulate a large spread for when Arctic sea-ice area is predicted to drop below 1 million km2, such that the Arctic Ocean becomes practically sea-ice free.

Extensive Arctic sampling and in-depth analysis Our research was led by a a team at Ocean Wise Conservation Association in Vancouver, and supported by field teams from Fisheries and Oceans Canada ...