Passengers aboard an Antarctic cruise were thrown around by giant waves while the ship passed through the Drake Passage in ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.

After all, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the sea floor in an area of the ocean previously cut off to humans. Despite their excitement, the team on the Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel ...

They look like they’re on a deep-sea expedition to explore a shipwreck on the ocean floor. But they are actually ... sunk to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Norway.

The high Arctic area is already experiencing severe ... sources of organic matter for animal communities dwelling on the ocean floor. The last ice area is one of the few remaining regions for ...

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 ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the consequences could extend far beyond the North. Known as the Beaufort Gyre ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...