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

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the short term, this creates something of a nutrient injection that jump starts the cycle of life in the ocean. But this April saw a record loss of sea ice across the Arctic.

Today’s Arctic sea ice is more likely to resemble a snow-covered parking lot than the chaotic ice blocks Nansen saw. Two years of tanking summer sea ice—in 2005 and 2007—exposed the dark ...

The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to ...

Arctic ice melt is setting stage for severe winters Date: June 6, 2012 Source: Cornell University Summary: A dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home ...

The authors suggest that climate change will increasingly affect the Arctic Ocean's nitrogen cycle. More frequent Arctic wildfires will mean greater carbon and nitrogen emissions.

Since 2020, the Bavenit vessel has drilled 38 shallow stratigraphic wells of more than 4,800 meters long in all seas of the Arctic Ocean's Russian sector ...

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. In turn, that sea ice contamination likely ...

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 ...