WITH a hibernation period of up to 100 million years, bacteria discovered on the Arctic sea floor may have longest life cycle of any known organism. Casey Hubert from the Geosciences Group at ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our sediment cores show that marine life was active even during the coldest times ...

Understanding Arctic Ocean's carbon cycle Date: May 21, 2012 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Scientists have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

The Arctic is experiencing a vast melting of sea ice. But something is happening under the ice that scientists don’t fully understand.

Arctic ice is getting thinner by the day—and sea life is suffering A new study says the structural change has been abrupt, making life harder for everything from tiny algae to polar bears.

Sea ice both sequesters plastic from the ocean through its freeze/melt cycle and collects the pollution from above as it is deposited by wind currents.

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

The Last Ice Area is a sensitive ecosystem that is crucial for Arctic life and may be the only place where animals will find sanctuary in the dire face of climate change.