For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

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

Rapid ice melt in the Arctic is one of the most devastating consequences of climate change—both for the Arctic ecosystem as well as sea level rise around the world. A new study focused on giant ...

Eight feet of ice, freezing temps, and 40-pound sheefish make for an arctic adventure. Here's what it's like ice fishing for sheefish.

Arctic ice is shrinking by 13 per cent a decade, but newly discovered giant viruses could help slow some of the decline.

A newly discovered virus might stop algae blooms that accelerate melting Arctic ice. Clever solution or dangerous geoengineering?

While giant viruses have been found in the ocean, this is the first time they've been seen on surface ice and snow with microalgae.

Scientists recently discovered viruses in the algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet. Hordes of giant viruses are living on the world’s second-largest body of ice — and may be slowing ...

Sea ice loss is not only damaging to wildlife, plants and the roughly 4 million people who live in the Arctic — it has global consequences. Sea ice acts like a giant mirror, reflecting the ...

Kraken fans heading out for the team’s home opener Tuesday night should see plenty of where things left off last spring with a few changes both on and off the ice.

As sea ice melts and opens new routes for maritime traffic in the Arctic, the environmental fallout caused by vessels burning fossil fuels adds to global warming, which in turn melts more sea ice.

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet ...