The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures climb again, but over the last three decades, satellites have observed a 13% decline per decade in the summertime ...

In 2003 the multibeam helped Mayer map an unknown 10,000-foot underwater mountain, which he christened Healy Seamount. While Mayer focuses on bathymetry, other Arctic countries are first gathering ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of ... to understanding how well the ice cap as a whole is faring.

to the precise positioning of current ice margins, and the use of all those tongue-twisting Greenlandic names. Getty Images The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on Earth "The map is a ...

This is known as the ice-albedo feedback. Surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are warming more rapidly than anywhere else on the planet. The Arctic ice cap is composed mainly of sea ice, and not ...