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  Arctic Ocean may be ice-free for part of year by 2044: Study

  Science | November 18, 2019 12:34 IST

  Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US noted that as long as humans have been on Earth, the planet has had a large cap of sea ice at the Arctic Circle that expands each winter and contracts each summer.  

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  Arctic Ocean acidification may cause emission of more harmful greenhouse gas: Study

  Science | November 17, 2019 17:05 IST

  The gradual acidification of the subarctic region of the Pacific ocean, is causing a significant increase in the production of nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas, according to a study.

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  Arctic ocean may be invaded by microbes from tropics, affecting ecosystems: Study

  Science | November 15, 2019 10:56 IST

  The two studies, published in the journal Cell on Thursday, found that the diversity of microscopic organisms habiting the Earth's oceans are the least at the higher latitudes -- nearer to the poles -- and increase in a gradient towards the equator.

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  NASA weighs in on petroleum development in Arctic Ocean

  Science | November 26, 2018 8:06 IST

  The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in April sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management estimating that 70 rocket parts have landed in the Beaufort Sea since the 1960s.

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  Mars once had sea larger than the Earth's Arctic Ocean: NASA

  World | March 07, 2015 7:06 IST

  Washington: Ancient Mars was likely to have possessed a primitive ocean that held more water than the Earth's Arctic Ocean, the US space agency NASA said."Perhaps about 4.3 billion years ago, Mars would have had

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  Russia restores military presence in Arctic

  World | September 17, 2013 9:02 IST

  Moscow: Russia has restored military presence in the Arctic and plans to build an airfield in the region, a senior military official said Monday.A group of warships from the Northern Fleet has started to implement