Antarctica is a formidable icy seductress, provoking feelings of wonder and trepidation in varying degrees like nowhere else on earth. Ever since the White Continent was formally discovered a little ...

The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is loud enough to be detected throughout the entire Pacific Ocean. Its source ...

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The North Atlantic Ocean is warming up. Higher temperatures and increased human activity in the region can trigger abrupt changes in marine ecosystems, for example, how species are distributed and ...

Sixty years since Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first ‘citizen explorers’ expedition to the Antarctic, expedition specialists explain how to sell the frozen continent ...

They were mammoth bones… until they weren’t. For more than 70 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) was believed to have come from the Ice ...

MOORHEAD — Before she left for her trip to Antarctica, Vicki Koterba of Moorhead said she was giddy. Now, the reason is clear. Koterba shared pictures from her 13-day Smithsonian adventure, visiting ...

The top two threats facing whales off Long Island's coast are boat strikes and fishing nets. That’s according to research by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, a group that performs necropsies ...

A chaotic scene unfolded off the coast of New Jersey this weekend. As shocked witnesses looked on, a 26-foot minke whale fatally collided with a motorboat, throwing a passenger overboard and nearly ...

In a new study, researchers have discovered how whales are fighting for food with each other due to climate change, as published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. Researchers claim that ...