Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers ...

The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models ...

For decades, the world's largest iceberg, weighing in at nearly a trillion tons, was stuck in place. But now it is melting at ...

Just when you thought you’d seen everything in the boreal forest, a reader points out white whiskers sprouting from the ...

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the ...

Climate models have long predicted that global warming would weaken the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). Yet decades of ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden ecosystem where bacteria convert nitrogen gas into nutrients, fueling algae growth.

There, she was following the lead of Alfred Wegener, a man perhaps best known for suggesting in 1912 that the continents have drifted into their present positions over time. In 1916, Wegener noticed ...

An AWI study gives a potential explanation as to why the ocean around Antarctica is defying climate model projections and continuing to absorb CO2, despite the effects of climate change. Climate ...