Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much ...

With the rapid melting of Arctic ice, the waters have opened up to more human traffic, which is disturbing the underwater ...

Emperor penguins march along the ice on Cape Washington on Antarctica's Ross Sea. Contrary to popular belief, these ...

As human activity grows in the Arctic, underwater noise is spreading through icy waters, disrupting how many animals ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The submersible Fendouzhe being deployed off a Chinese icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...

More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by conventional wisdom, exist. In the permanent night and crushing pressure of the deep, ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

The Arctic is experiencing a steady rise in human-generated underwater noise as melting ice and increasing activity open the ...

Conservation and science meet style with a side of tech when it comes to conducting research on whales and dolphins through a collaboration between FIU and a private company. Fahlo’s co-founders, ...

In the frozen wilderness of the Arctic, human survival historically depended on using every available food source. But one ...