A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...

Over the next century, the Arctic will change and look much different than it does today. Just how different is still unknown ...

The recent trip was part of a larger project called the Alaskan Arctic Coast Port Access Route Study, which was enacted to evaluate the need for establishing vessel routing measures. The mission's ...

Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a ...

Then, they found a new volcano-like formation deep in the ocean waters. The new volcano-like structure sits more than 1,600 ...

Scientists aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy have identified a potential underwater volcano while mapping the seafloor off ...

So now I am 80-and-a-quarter years old! The initial shock of turning 80 has dimmed and I’m now able to crack jokes about it.

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

With regard to the recent commentary, “Indigenous Alaskans ask President Biden to establish an Arctic Ocean marine national monument,” by Nauri Simmonds and Delbert Pungowiyi (Oct. 23): The ...

A small Arctic research station in Norway has emerged as a scientific hub, and it’s home to an increasingly female-led contingent of experts doing some of the planet’s most important studies.

The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, ...