The Arctic’s melt season has concluded, and this year the sea ice rebounded from its historic low last year, according to a release Friday from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Sea ice ...

A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the ...

While there is currently no drilling activity in Canada’s Arctic, ExxonMobil, BP and Imperial Oil have formed a joint venture to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea, already spending billions ...

A line of pink lingers above the horizon, the April sun offering a welcome dose of brightness after the months-long polar night. A dozen miles off Point Barrow, Alaska’s northernmost tip, the sea is ...

Numerous bottom samples collected during 1971-1977 from the western half of the Beaufort Sea contained four species of myodocopid ostracodes, three new. The new species are described and illustrated, ...