Without an ice layer on the ocean's surface, the light penetrating the waters changes, affecting the type of algae and ...

The administration wants to designate a High Arctic offshore area beyond the 200-mile limit as part of a new oil leasing plan ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other ...

The Trump administration’s interest in Greenland appears to be part of what Washington sees as a broader competition for ...

For further information, please see our April Arctic sea ice extent averaged 13.91 million square kilometers (5.37 million ...

For much of the 19th century, Americans thought that the broad expanses of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans protected our ...

Here are answers to three questions about the High Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior Department that manages offshore energy in federal waters, released a map of ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the ...