A new seafloor map reveals an area in the Arctic Ocean twice the size of France and six times the size of England. This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the ...

The administration wants to include a new High Arctic offshore area in a new oil leasing program, but U.S. rights there are ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies ... other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...

The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw puzzle ... linked extreme winters in East Asia to air-circulation changes caused ...

A rush to extract natural resources from the Arctic Ocean is heating up as global warming makes more and more of it accessible. Below is a map highlighting major oil and gas fields and the two ...

The Tropic of Cancer passes through the south of Asia. The Arctic Ocean is north of Asia, the Pacific Ocean is to the east and the Indian Ocean is to the south. The Himalayan mountain range is ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...