As the climate crisis progresses, the Arctic's importance is increasing. Areas that were once hard to reach are now free of ...

The country has a growing confluence of scientific, commercial and strategic plans to boost its presence. Read more at ...

The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice has sparked serious concerns in the scientific community. In addition, sea ...

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic’s melting ice, which holds ...

Changes in both the Antarctic and Arctic marine ecosystems affect the ... on the surrounding polar environment. “This new research ship will be a tremendous asset to the U.K. polar science ...

Researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University today proposed an alternative ...

The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion ... in the Arctic as well as supply runs to the U.S. research station at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Long-term data collection is needed to understand Arctic marine ecosystem changes as sea ice melts in response to climate ...

Researchers have developed a concept for an autonomous twin-hull research mothership to study sea ice melt with robots ...

As Arctic sea ice continues to thin and shrink, an essential feature of its ecosystem—pressure ridges—is becoming ...

The field data used in the study was gathered in September 2023 during an expedition to the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic region aboard RV Mirai, a Japanese research vessel. The team ...