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The Baltic Sea is better known than the North Sea for highlighting the vulnerability of the alliance's critical undersea ...
The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite ...
In the summer of 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sedov was doing exploration work in the Kara Sea and making a hydrological survey of the Laptev Sea, two links of the Northeast Passage (see map).
The incoming cold air mass originates from the Laptev Sea north of Russia, traveling over 4,000 miles to reach the eastern ...
The weirdly warm November weather will soon come to a crashing end, thanks to an air mass moving from the Laptev Sea north of Russia — over 4,000 miles away from the U.S. East Coast, where its ...
Figure 1a. The map on the left shows Arctic sea ice extent for September 2024 at 4.38 million square kilometers (1.69 million square miles). The magenta line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for ...
Series of circumpolar polar bear subpopulation and status trend maps 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Sources: Canadian subpopulation status information provided by Canada’s Polar Bear Technical Committee ...
It’s a symptom of melting sea ice, which was obsolete that summer. Walruses rely on ice during their migration and feeding. Without it they are forced to come onto land in huge numbers.