For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Drawing on a decade’s worth of underwater sound data from Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic, the researchers found that as climate change drives faster ice loss, the region’s underwater soundscape ...

In the middle of the Arctic Ocean, a research ship did something that sounds completely crazy at first. Instead of escaping ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea, presents new evidence that ...

Careful reanalysis of data from more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, does not have a vast ocean beneath its icy surface, as suggested previously. Instead, a journey ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...