New Antarctic ice core data bolster model predictions of ocean heat content during glacials and interglacials.

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

A thawing Arctic has become the latest frontier of geopolitical competition; here’s what China, Russia, and the United States ...

Scientists have discovered the exact point where gravity is weakest on Earth, leaving people feeling "lighter". After ...

The economic promise of the Arctic has also heightened military and security sensitivities, Stefan Wolff writes in a ...

How many oceans are there? Four, of course. Wrong. While we were busy with the COVID-19 pandemic, NOAA, U.S. Board on ...

By Veronika Samborska for Our World in Data The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record-low winter maximum on March 22, 2025, with just 5.53 million square miles of coverage—well ...

Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen announced plans for her visit after US Vice President JD Vance visited a US air base in Greenland last week and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the territory. Listen ...