Rutgers' research reveals the widespread presence of mercury pollution in Earth’s polar regions. In 1962, environmentalist ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were taken aback ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the Gulf of Mexico had officially been changed to ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

To assess mercury’s geographic reach and establish a new baseline for mercury in Antarctic penguins ... throughout the ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study ...

Languages: English. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this ...

The newly exposed Antarctic seafloor also allowed the team to gather critical data on the past behavior of the ice sheet. The ice sheet has been shrinking and losing mass over the last few decades due ...