Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published ...

Art often imitates life, and sometimes animals do, too. The enormous jellyfish seen in this YouTube video bears a striking ...

and thus the myriad animals that prey on them. The Arctic was once covered with a formidable mass of ice that posed a steep challenge to shipping. Now, as the Arctic Ocean warms and opens up ...

Despite global cuts to mercury emissions, Arctic wildlife are accumulating toxic levels as century-old pollution rides ocean ...

Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...

The humble bivalve — nicknamed Hafrún, an Icelandic word meaning “ocean mystery” — was the longest-living individual animal ever found ... frigid waters of the Arctic.

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

However, the Arctic Ocean and its marginal seas have experienced a rise in POP levels. Their presence poses potential dangers to animals and people as they enter the fragile ecosystem’s food web.

Oceans can be divided into zones and each zone ... of Earth's five oceans. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest and also the coldest. The largest animal that has ever existed lives ...

the large white animal stepping from ice block to ice block as the ocean underneath swells, up and down, up and down. "One of the most incredible sights I've witnessed in the Arctic," wrote ...