New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

The Bitter End Yacht Club feels like a secret, luxury hangout for sailors in the know. Bitter End Yacht Club's location on ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

That’s Cape Henlopen State Park Beach in Lewes, Delaware—a coastal paradise where the Atlantic meets pristine shoreline in a ...

Visitors to the National Marine Aquarium can feed Zeus and learn why he’s become a mascot for ocean conservation and empathy ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Tunas are apex predators in marine food webs that can accumulate mercury (Hg) to high concentrations and provide more Hg (∼40%) to the U.S population than any other source. We measured Hg ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...