Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep down in the Arctic Ocean, life becomes bizarre. One might suppose that at its greatest depths, the icy, dark water would be ...

Far below the ice, in a realm long assumed to be almost lifeless, scientists have stumbled on a thriving oasis nearly 2.5 miles under the Arctic Ocean. The discovery, centered on a methane hydrate ...

A new study finds that Arctic ringed seals face a double threat from climate change and long-lasting pollutants.

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

Climate change is having a profound impact on the Arctic. We know that the region is warming significantly faster than the ...

Drawing on a decade’s worth of underwater sound data from Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic, the researchers found that as climate change drives faster ice loss, the region’s underwater soundscape ...

Hong Kong's last two Arctic foxes have both died of age-related decline, said Ocean Park in a Feb. 21 statement. Siu Go and ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

Scientists claim that the Arctic soundscape is much more diverse than previously thought, and propose a change in how it ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy waters. The speckled toothed whales—sometimes referred to as “unicorns of the ...