Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

A major shift in western Arctic wind patterns occurred throughout the winter of 2017 and the resulting changes in sea ice movement are possible indicators of a changing climate, says a researcher. A ...

The shrinking of Arctic sea ice could impact daily weather patterns across the United States, a new study has found. The study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers at Penn State ...

Even though we have had almost daily storms since early in June, we really have not had our typical summer pattern. Well, now we do. It's all about wind direction, wind speed, the amount of moisture ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The National Hurricane Center has recently released its latest outlook for the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season, and it paints a picture of an active season with between 14 and 21 named ...

Is it a butterfly? A bee? An alien? Nope! It’s a sea snail. A sea snail. From the sea. This aptly-named Arctic “sea butterfly” (Limacina helicina) is the subject of a new study in the Journal of ...

The rapid decline of Arctic sea ice during the last couple of decades has spurred climate scientists to study how that meltdown influences the rest of the planet, and a new study suggests that the ...

The “warm Arctic–cold Eurasia” is one of the most significant patterns of winter climate system changes in the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. In winter 2020/21, this large-scale ...

Researchers unearthed a surprising seafloor discovery: a highly organized city of fish nests with striking geometric patterns in a remote part of the Western Weddell Sea, an area that had been covered ...