As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the ...

Interplanetary dust laced with helium-3 that has settled on the sea floor has provided climate scientists with an urgently ...

Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

The Arctic’s melt season has concluded, and this year the sea ice rebounded from its historic low last year, according to a release Friday from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Sea ice ...

Researchers found that the fringes of Arctic sea ice tend to host more nitrogen-fixing bacteria and higher nitrogen-fixing ...

Melting Arctic ice enables nitrogen-fixing microbes to feed algae and absorb carbon, challenging old climate views.

A new record of Arctic sea-ice coverage – informed by the slow and steady sedimentation of cosmic dust on the sea floor – reveals that ancient ice waxed and waned with atmospheric warming, not ocean ...

The author’s view walking across Arctic sea ice off Utqiagvik, Alaska, in April 2025. (Photo by Alexandra Jahn/The Conversation) As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for ...

Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and feeding grounds, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of ...

Scientists have found nitrogen-fixing microbes beneath Arctic sea ice, potentially reshaping climate and nutrient models if ...

Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important ...

Finland will provide four new icebreakers to America under a $6.1 billion agreement as the U.S. seeks to strengthen Arctic defense against Russia and China.