For years, experts have studied the impacts of melting sea ice on our environment. However, scientists have recently discovered a startling new development lurking deep in the polar oceans. In a ...

Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...

In a report published in this week’s issue of Science, a team of oceanographers, including MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Center director Hugh Ducklow, outline a polar ocean observation ...

A severe winter storm that brought freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. was intensified by the polar ...

Comparison of Arctic Ocean FSLE snapshots from the two simulations during March. Brighter regions (high FSLE) indicate more vigorous horizontal stirring. Left panel: present-day conditions; right ...

The United Nations declared the 2020s the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to highlight the need for public engagement, citizenship, and connection to harness positive change for ...

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The biggest swings in the jet stream are associated with the most energy. Under the right conditions, that energy can bounce ...