An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

Our knowledge of the depth and shape of the Arctic Ocean floor – its bathymetry – is insufficient. Owing to year-round sea-ice coverage and the cost of research in this remote region, much of the ...

A stunning new map of the Arctic Ocean has uncovered an enormous area that is causing quite the stir in the scientific community. Picture this a stretch of ocean so vast it is bigger than both France ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

The international BIOCAL expedition, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), provided new evidence on the phenomenon of ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a region ...

The Arctic is heating up, both because of climate change and tricky global politics. That's partly why the U.S. appointed its first ambassador-at-large to oversee Arctic affairs. Mike Sfraga was sworn ...

Xianming Zhang: “Persistent organic pollutants are very stable, bioaccumulative and toxic, meaning they do not break down easily and can move through the global environment and accumulate up through ...