Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.

The discovery came during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep EXTREME24 expedition, led by the Arctic University of Norway and other ...

Beyond rising temperatures, the indirect effects of global warming, such as greater human activity in the region, add further ...

A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet. The discovery was made during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep–EXTREME24 expedition and ...

Deep down in the Arctic Ocean, life becomes bizarre. Off the coast of Greenland, the deep seafloor is littered with towering ...

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare time capsule of life from 75,000 years ago. The bones and DNA traces of dozens ...

The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

Tundra voles are among the small mammals Dr. Phil Manlick, with the U.S. Forest Service, studies to understand how warming is changing boreal and Arctic food webs. Tiny organisms are making big moves ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

In the Arctic Ocean, at a depth of more than 3.6 km, scientists have discovered a unique ecosystem formed around massive ...

New economic developments in the Arctic, such as trans-Arctic shipping and oil exploitation, will bring along unprecedented risks of marine oil spills. The world is therefore calling for a thorough ...