Arctic air will sweep across the Midwest and East Coast, which may leave you wondering if it’s going to be a long, cold ...

The planet’s northernmost ocean could experience its first day free of ice as early as 2027, a new study has found. While the ...

The Arctic Ocean could have a period effectively devoid of ice as soon as summer 2027, new research shows. The exact date is ...

Jahn and Heuzé predicted the first ice-free Arctic day using data from over 300 computer models. They discovered that the ...

The international BIOCAL expedition, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma ...

(Such Russian subs are normally equipped with sixteen ocean-spanning nuclear-tipped ... Neither country has retargeted its Arctic ICBMs away from their Cold War positionings.

Ice loss is also making the Arctic even more vulnerable to ocean acidification, another effect of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. Cold water absorbs more CO₂ than warm water does, and more ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are ... sea levels and more extreme summer heat and winter cold, as well as loss of habitat for wildlife.

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... Due to the extremely cold climate, there are a few remnants of this ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

“Back to the Cold War days, the shortest distance between North America and Moscow was, of course, across the Arctic Ocean, and the geography is the same today,” Wegge continued ...