The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Researchers call it the Hidden Ocean. It's the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean, north of Alaska. More than a mile deep, it is locked in ice most of the year. Now, an international team of more ...

Atop the globe, the icy surface of the Arctic Ocean has remained relatively peaceful. But its depths have boiled with intrigue, no more so than in the Cold War.

In 2013, as part of a seven-month circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean, scientists aboard the research vessel Tara documented a profusion of tiny pieces of plastic in the Greenland and Barents ...

Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research reported in Nature Climate Change by a team of ...

Oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic's puzzling ocean turbulence: Their study suggests waters will become more turbulent as Arctic loses summertime ice.

These discrepancies in depths were not expected in the Arctic Ocean. The physicist in the party found the intermediate layer of warm Atlantic water at all three stations.

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the nature journal Scientific Data. The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the form of a digital gridded database ...

New Depth Map Of The Arctic OceanAn international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts ...

The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...