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Former NFL tight end Jimmy Graham has conquered a new frontier -- not on the football field, but across the frigid waters of ...
Retired NFL tight end Jimmy Graham added to his already impressive sporting resume by completing the 584-mile Arctic ...
The Arctic Ocean, though smallest, significantly influences global climate and hosts unique wildlife. Surrounded by Eurasia, ...
New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.
The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research.. The study, published Wednesday in the ...
Some projections say that by 2040 the Arctic Ocean may see its first ice-free summer in modern history. That means mixed emotions for young scientists seeing the ice for the first time.
The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the beginning of the 20th century, fueled by a process known as Atlantification, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
The Arctic Ocean is many things. Cold and icy come to mind, of course, but "salty" should as well—it’s an ocean, after all. Yet a new study suggests that during certain ice age periods, the ...
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century -- decades earlier than records suggest -- due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the ...
The Arctic Ocean has a unique structure to begin with — it contains layers of warmer and colder waters resting on top of one another, capped off with a covering of sea ice, ...
A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, brings Sámi culture to the spotlight under the midnight sun. Rapper Mihkku Laiti, also ...
For comparison, recent years have seen the Arctic Ocean with a minimum sea ice cover in September of around 1,274,000 square miles, which is about a third of the area of the US.