Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...

Named for their spotty patterns, ringed seals live an average of 40 years in the Arctic Ocean. Ringed seals are particularly threatened as sea ice melts because the mammals give birth in ice caves. As ...

"We still do not fully understand how these processes vary by season." Scientists issue warning after discovering ocean ...

The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

The studies are important to understand how water masses spread from the Atlantic to the Barents Sea in the climate change context ...

When it comes to dog breeds with uniquely American roots, only one carries the name of a U.S. state: the Alaskan Malamute. This powerful and majestic sled dog not only […] ...

A long-term study of bowhead whales in Alaska published this week points to a direct correlation between ocean warming and threats to the Arctic food web. An example of a fecal sample from a ...

When microorganisms swim as a group, their collective motions create flow patterns in their surrounding fluid, a process known as bioconvection. This reshapes nutrient distributions and impacts ...

More information: Willy Baeyens et al, Prevalence of multi-micronutrient limitation of phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean, One Earth (2025).

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New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...