Plants found to photosynthesize 160 feet beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean offer tantalizing prospects for the future. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published ...

However, a research team led by Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered plants that perform photosynthesis at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, where almost no light reaches.

Their recent study investigates the Siberian primrose, a plant species that occurs on the coasts of the Bothnian Bay and Arctic Ocean. Climate change is threatening the viability of the species.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might ... in the tropics, the Arctic. It also appeared to have a special and rare function of taking nitrogen from the surroundings ...

When Cai first studied the Arctic Ocean in 2008, he saw that the ice had ... No one knows exactly what that will do to the creatures and plants and other living things that depend on healthy ...

Researchers found 230 new giant viruses in ocean samples. Some carry genes that hijack photosynthesis and metabolism.

This summer, large container ships took previously impassable routes through the Arctic Ocean, thanks to low levels ... thawing permafrost makes way for new plant life to spread across the land.

DANIEL: And yet the DNA was everywhere - in the open ocean, along the coast, in the tropics, the Arctic. It also appeared ... the ability to engineer plants that could snatch nitrogen out of ...