The North Pole, often a subject of fascination, lies at the very top of our planet, but its exact location can be difficult to pinpoint on a standard map. Geographically, it is located over the Arctic ...

A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 project. This discovery enhances understanding of the ocean's mysteries ...

In the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration, the five central Arctic states committed themselves to an orderly settlement of any overlapping claims in the Arctic. Nevertheless, the situation in the high ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but ...

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 ...

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.

The Arctic Ocean is warming quickly—the Fram Strait is nearly 2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in 1900. But Atlantification is about more than rising temperatures: It’s a process that is ...

The Arctic Ocean is warming quickly—the Fram Strait is nearly 2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in 1900. But Atlantification is about more than rising temperatures: ...

A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 project. This discovery enhances understanding of the ocean's mysteries ...