Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...

For years, experts have studied the impacts of melting sea ice on our environment. However, scientists have recently discovered a startling new development lurking deep in the polar oceans. In a ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the cascading effects of global warming. This March, the ...

At the stroke of noon on New Year's Day hundreds of participants raced into the ocean during the annual Tybee Polar Plunge.

The United Nations declared the 2020s the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to highlight the need for public engagement, citizenship, and connection to harness positive change for ...

How Ukrainian polar researchers live and work in Antarctica, what threats emerge at the “edge” of the world, what is ...

Comparison of Arctic Ocean FSLE snapshots from the two simulations during March. Brighter regions (high FSLE) indicate more vigorous horizontal stirring. Left panel: present-day conditions; right ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred ...