A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

Led by the European Research Council Synergy Grant project Into the Blue – i2B, the research team studied sediment cores collected from the seafloor of the central Nordic Seas and Yermak Plateau, ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

New study shows that 16 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s organic carbon comes from terrestrial sources, such as thawing permafrost and eroding coastlines. Climate change and the associated rising ...

It’s early November on Flakstad Beach and 25 miles an hour winds are whipping plumes of spindrift off enormous Arctic waves. Powerful gusts carry flurries of hail that sting like bullets and the sky ...

Yet this interest in the Arctic is not new. Since the Cold War, the U.S. has regarded the region as a critical space for its strategic security. In this context, it can be argued that the growing ...