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Environment
Alarming milestone: the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in just 3 years
New research sounds the alarm: At the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, the Arctic Ocean will have its first ice-free day in 2027.
Environment
Huge wormhole discovered at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean
Geologists have recorded the phenomenon of many large craters forming at an 'extraordinary' rate at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, CNN reported on March 15.
Biology
Detecting large numbers of bacteria on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean
The new group of bacteria is a related family of sexually transmitted pathogens, proliferating in high-pressure and hypoxic environments.
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Mysterious holes in the Arctic Ocean confused NASA
Looks like mysterious holes like someone pulling a sharp object, heating up ice cubes to create punctures and a slight melting of ice around.
Oceanography
The Arctic lost three times as much ice as Belgium every day
Images from the US satellite show that about 100,000 square kilometers of ice in the Arctic Ocean melted yesterday.
Oceanography
Use robots to detect life in the Arctic Ocean
Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, will use three robots during a 40-day expedition in the Gakkel Ridge Mountains in the Arctic Ocean to find trace…
Oceanography
The water level in the Arctic Ocean decreased by 2cm / year
According to data from the ERS -2 satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), the team of scientists from Germany and the Netherlands discovered that the water level i…
Biology
Bacteria sleep 100 million years in the Arctic Ocean
The thermophilic bacteria on the ocean floor of the Arctic Ocean may have slept for 100 million years to wait for
Environment
Alarming acidification in the Arctic Ocean
Greenhouse gas emissions are making acidification of the Arctic Ocean faster than other oceans on Earth as a result of an international study published in Canada on May…
Environment
The Arctic Ocean emits greenhouse gases
Research by world scientists published April 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience warns that the Arctic Ocean could be a huge source of methane, a source of greenhouse ga…
Environment
Ice in the Arctic Ocean
A leading oceanographer in the UK judged that the ice area on the surface of the Arctic Ocean was falling so quickly that it could disappear completely within four years.
Environment
Volcano under the Arctic ice
The team, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), recently found evidence of a volcanic eruption deep beneath the ice-covered white surface of the Arctic Ocean.
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The beautiful snow flower blooms in the Arctic Ocean
Snow flower is a strange phenomenon famous in the Arctic Ocean, formed in the