New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

Chessie the Sea Monster will be among the ice sculptures, visitor center staff said. The festival runs from 4 p.m.–9 p.m. on Friday and 12 p.m.–8 p.m. on Saturday.

A new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions are leading to a severe decline in their populations in the South Orkney Islands. New results are published today (Wednesday 18 June) ...

"It was a monster storm, and the sea ice got pummeled. And the sea ice models didn't predict that loss, which suggests there are ways we could improve the model physics," said second author ...

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for ...

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

Shell fossils are common, as are much younger Ice Age fossils from land animals ... "This was definitely a sea lizard." Geologists in Mississippi found the vertebra of a mosasaur, a predatory ...

By Austyn Gaffney Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and ...

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the ...