Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Seasonal sea ice forms and melts every year creating openings in the ice with open water where life can continue to thrive.

Along Norway’s coastline, the rhythm of life slows in summer — shaped by the good weather and long hours of daylight.

In January 2024, Norway's parliament opened the way to deep-sea mining and was planning to start issuing exploration licenses in 2025. But international scientists, environmental groups like ...

Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its ...

When Alaina Beresford was 12, she committed her message to the sea in an empty bottle of Moray Cup fizzy pop and now decades later she has received the surprise of her life ...

Earlier this year, Norway announced it would open more than 100,000 square miles of its territorial waters, and an extended continental shelf it claims, for deep sea mining.

The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology established, through genetic connectivity analysis, that a northward ...

Since 2017, Norway has been considering the possibility of mining in the part of the Arctic Ocean set aside as its exclusive economic zone — specifically in an area comprising over 100,000 ...

Arctic seabed mining will cause ‘irreversible harm’ to wildlife – Greenpeace Environmental group is urging Norway to put its plans to open up Arctic seas to deep sea mining on hold.

Science | April 21, 2025. As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts. In the past, scientists, industry and government have ...