... , Calif. -- A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales.
... mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been ...
Researchers have found new data to suggest that the carbon pool beneath the Arctic Ocean is leaking.
Federal fishery regulators Thursday approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.
A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated. New research says the Arctic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as ...
... loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean off the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen ... related to fluid circulation through warm ocean crust at spreading ridges where "black ...
Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were ...
Canada's efforts to claim a vast area of the Arctic Ocean as its own are getting some help from the military, ... own devices to aid researchers in mapping hard-to-reach parts of the high Arctic seabed.
... the crew of the USS Queenfish took their submarine in 1970 beneath the perennial sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean to explore and map the Siberian Continental Shelf for the ...
This Envisat image captures the marginal ice zone, a region that forms at the boundary of open and frozen oceans, of the Greenland Sea during the onset of spring melting.
... deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented ... Sohn, lead author and chief scientist for the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition (AGAVE) of July ...
WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they've discovered signs of volcanic activity under Arctic Ocean ice, defying assumptions about sea floor pressure and volcanoes.
... and air temperatures.
Because the exact atmospheric conditions which determine the weather patterns in the Arctic Ocean during the coming months are not predictable, Rüdiger Gerdes and his team have ...
Jets of searingly hot water spewing up from the ocean floor have been discovered in a far-northern zone of the Arctic Ocean, Swiss-based scientists announced Monday.
... north while cold and less saline Arctic water flows south. This marine region is ... deepwater link between the North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean and hence a region in which systematic changes ...