As human activity grows in the Arctic, underwater noise is spreading through icy waters, disrupting how many animals ...

Emperor penguins march along the ice on Cape Washington on Antarctica's Ross Sea. Contrary to popular belief, these ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The Arctic is experiencing a steady rise in human-generated underwater noise as melting ice and increasing activity open the ...

The lush greenery of the Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the planet,” but really land plants are just half of the equation. The other lung dwells in the sea. Single-celled ...

More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by conventional wisdom, exist. In the permanent night and crushing pressure of the deep, ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

The submersible Fendouzhe being deployed off a Chinese icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: ...

Far below the ice, in a realm long assumed to be almost lifeless, scientists have stumbled on a thriving oasis nearly 2.5 miles under the Arctic Ocean. The discovery, centered on a methane hydrate ...

The student course Arctic Future Pathfinders, which is held on the sailing ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl going through the Northwest Passage, combines cutting-edge science with hands-on education. The ...