Most of the sunlight reaching the Arctic Ocean is reflected to space by sea ice, effectively shielding ocean ecosystems from sunlight. As the Arctic sea ice continues its downward trend, larger ...

The 4th EMB Forum, recognized as an official ICARP III event, promotes the need for an ecosystem-based management approach in the Arctic Ocean, in order to adapt to and manage rapid environmental ...

“The Arctic Ocean is amazing, but it is rapidly changing,” Zhou said. “It is very likely that in the future, the Arctic Ocean is going to be another Atlantic or Pacific. There’s debate, but some Earth ...

Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world's oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have ...

A new discovery in the remote Arctic region has stunned scientists. An international team of researchers recently found a vast collection of underwater structures along the edge of the Canadian ...

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food ...

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

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

However, once it enters the ocean, it can persist for over 300 years. This means that even with current emission reductions, the Arctic may continue to experience elevated mercury levels for ...

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean.Though Indigenous people in the region have seen the whales, also known as orcas, pop up ...

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is waning due to melting permafrost and worsening coastal erosion, according to new research.