Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

An autonomous underwater vehicle used at an ice camp to map Canada’s continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Oceanographic vessels, icebreakers and nuclear submarines were used to help create the ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

New depth map of the Arctic Ocean. University of Barcelona. Journal Scientific Data DOI 10.1038/s41597-020-0520-9 ...

The frozen pack ice in the Arctic Ocean makes it one of the most inaccessible oceans in the world. For this reason, most scientific research on pack ice is carried out remotely using satellite ...

With warming climate, summer sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking fast, and now consistently spans less than half the area it did in the early 1980s. This raises the question: If this keeps up ...

Arctic ice sends solar radiation back to space, because bright ice reflects more than the dark ocean. If the ice melts, additional solar energy will be added to the region, increasing planetary ...

The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean ... Multibeam probes and nuclear submarine under the Arctic ice. In order to carry out the IBCAO 4.0 map, ...

Thawing ice in the Arctic may open up new routes for internet cables that lie at the bottom of the ocean and carry most international data traffic. And more routes matter when underwater ...