Arctic communities have long been noticing changes in the sea ice across Alaska, with ice setting up later most years and proving less dependable throughout the winter many years. The impacts have ...

She wonders, too, whether Arctic phytoplankton’s ability to ride out near-absolute darkness might be shared by some algae in the colder, darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

China has officially greenlit the creation of a new deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, an important step for both scientific exploration and geopolitical strategy. Positioned 2,000 ...

There was less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than at any other point on record, according to satellite measurements from the European Union’s climate service Copernicus.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

It would accommodate up to six scientists at a time for month-long missions.

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The arctic outbreak that has enveloped the central U.S. is hitting its peak Thursday as frigid temperatures continue to spread south and east across the nation. Extreme Cold ...

BENGALURU: India’s first move towards deep sea exploration was successfully conducted by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai. The maiden manned harbour trial of the much-a ...

The arctic outbreak that has enveloped the central ... challenge its daily record-low temperature. Friday will see the deep freeze continue to expand through the Southeast. Cities such as Memphis ...