The Arctic Ocean, though smallest, significantly influences global climate and hosts unique wildlife. Surrounded by Eurasia, ...

The condition of the polar vortex influences everyday weather around the globe. Scientist issue warning about concerning ...

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

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 ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

A new study links toxic algae found in bowhead whales to ocean warming - a growing threat to Arctic food webs.

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 ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as centuries-old artifacts are revealed for the first time. Take a look at some ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Environmental groups first petitioned the federal government to list the ringed seal along with two others under the ...