UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

The frigid depths of the polar oceans exist only in the imagination for most people. Images of stark white ice fields and vast expanses of water might lead us to believe that the Arctic and ...

"In the polar oceans, you have warm salty water at depth with colder fresher water on top," glaciologist Michael Wolovick said to NBC News in 2018. "This warm water is the biggest threat as it ...

In January 2025, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with the 144th Airlift Squadron of the Alaska Air National ...

Scientists have discovered the key role the Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays in regulating the global climate ...

A Jersey Shore beach in Ocean County was unusually crowded for a winter day on Saturday. The 32nd annual Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside Heights drew 7,500 polar plungers who walked, ran or briefly ...

The North Pacific and Southern oceans, on opposite sides of the Earth, represent remarkably similar polar ocean environments. Both are characterized by net upwelling of deep water, high ...

More information: Taimoor Sohail et al, Decline of antarctic circumpolar current due to polar ocean freshening, Environmental Research Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adb31c ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages has opened sale for “Polar Expeditions by Atlas” to Antarctica beginning November 2026 through March 2027 ...

Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as ...