By Remy Tumin Cecilia Blomdahl can still remember the first time she looked out at the Arctic Ocean on a winter night. The darkness was so dense she could not tell where land started and ended.

T he winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite ...

On the night of March 23, a specially-equipped F-150 pickup plowed across the frozen Arctic Ocean in Canada's Northwest Passage. It was dark, past 9 p.m. A wicked wind whipped across the frozen ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

For several months in winter, the Arctic is in perpetual ... a paradigm shift in how biologists might view the Arctic ocean during the polar night. "That means that there is a lot more ...

Those who live near Earth’s icy polar regions experience near-constant night every winter. In December, the village of Arctic Bay, Nunavut glows through the winter darkness. Located in the ...

The "knuckle hop" is based on a traditional method for hunting (Credit: Photo courtesy of Kyle Ḵaayák'w Worl) In the face of climate change, Indigenous communities are uniting in Alaska to ...

Now, new research has found that Arctic Ocean sea ice is shrinking even faster ... including the warmest meteorological winter in the United States. The global surface temperature in January ...

with the central basin of the Arctic Ocean warming three times faster than the global average. However, its hostile and challenging environment, particularly during the polar winter, means much of ...

ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean is greatest during the later winter months. This has been attributed to multiple factors such as water temperature differences, water pH differences and the ...