Arctic explorer and adventurer Mark Wood joins WIRED to answer the internet's ice cold questions about polar expeditions. How does an average person travel to the arctic? Can they? What does it take ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

How does one study an ocean that disappears for large parts of the year? For about six to eight months, the Central Arctic vanishes under about 6 ft of ice. Conditions are so extreme that the region ...

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea and gannets dive. While biodiversity loss in the Arctic Ocean may seem ...

Quark Expeditions has announced the latest addition to its fleet: the Ocean Explorer. The 138-passenger polar expedition ship will set sail at the start of the Antarctic 2024-25 season. Ocean Explorer ...

Something truly extraordinary is unfolding at the top of our planet right now, and most people are barely paying attention. The Arctic, that vast frozen crown of Earth, is melting at a pace that's ...

The Arctic Ocean may have crossed a dangerous tipping point. Scientists say the rapid disappearance of sea ice is triggering a hidden chemical shift that is stripping the ocean of nitrate — a nutrient ...

Over the past 25 years, the amount of summer Arctic sea ice has diminished by more than 1 million square kilometers. As a result, vast areas of the Arctic Ocean are now, on average, ice-free in summer ...