The amount of plastic in the world’s oceans is set to treble in a decade unless action is taken to deal with the problem, according to a major new report.... read more →
An LNG tanker designed for icy conditions has become the first commercial ship to travel the Arctic’s northern sea route in winter.It marks a milestone in the opening up of... read more →
Two NASA scientists recently returned from a two week, 470-mile (760 kilometers) expedition in one of the most barren landscapes on Earth. NASA cryospheric scientist Kelly Brunt and ICESat-2 deputy... read more →
A scientific expedition will next year try to find the Endurance, the ill-fated ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.The vessel sank in 1915, crushed by sea-ice in the Weddell... read more →
A team of Japanese scientists set a record by catching the deepest-dwelling fish on camera 26,830 feet below the ocean surface. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology filmed... read more →
Tiangong-1 is no more. China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere yesterday (April 1), breaking apart and burning up... read more →
At this time of the year, when Arctic sea ice hits its lowest extent for the season, scientists are turning to 40 years of satellite data to determine if 2018... read more →
But, is enough being done to prevent harm to delicate seabed ecosystems? Despite delays since 2008, Solwara 1, a deep sea mining project testing the potential of copper sulphides off... read more →
A crew member of a Russian nuclear submarine says his vessel tracked a “foreign” submarine for days in Arctic waters without being detected in what’s described as a record feat... read more →