A new seafloor map reveals an area in the Arctic Ocean twice the size of France and six times the size of England. This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the ...

Revisions to U.S. Outer Continental Shelf planning areas off Alaska are shown in this map from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The proposed High Arctic area is new and based on recent ...

Here are answers to three questions about the High Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies ... other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...

Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent, foreground, and United States Coast Guard Cutter Healy are seen working ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw puzzle of restless floes that are constantly colliding, deforming, and fracturing ...

A rush to extract natural resources from the Arctic Ocean is heating up as global warming makes more and more of it accessible. Below is a map highlighting major oil and gas fields and the two ...

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 ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the world's most remarkable oceans. It's home to a multitude of unique life ...

An Arctic "fogbow” is seen from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Healy during the 2016 Hidden Ocean mission to the Chukchi Borderland. (photo provided by Caitlin Bailey/Global Foundation for Ocean ...