Recent research shows how oxygen in the atmosphere travels to the ocean’s depths. The Labrador Sea is a body of water between Greenland and eastern Canada where the ocean churns, allowing the deepest ...

Freshwater is accumulating in the Arctic Ocean. The Beaufort Sea, which is the largest Arctic Ocean freshwater reservoir, has increased its freshwater content by 40% over the past two decades. How and ...

For the first time, scientists measure oxygen flow into the deep ocean interior of the Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland. They studied how much oxygen absorbed by the sea each winter makes it ...

Much more oxygen than previously thought is being transported into deep layers of the ocean through a ‘trap door’ off Canada’s Atlantic coast, that some researchers say could be closing as a result of ...

In spring, the Labrador Sea between Greenland and Canada enters an important phase of the year: billions of microscopic algae multiply rapidly and form a vast phytoplankton bloom. In satellite images, ...

In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent) reached the lowest value since satellite observations began ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Seascape sketches including one large-scale and two small-scale views of icebergs at sea off the coast of Newfoundland ...

The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea has increased its freshwater content by 40 percent over the past two decades. When conditions change this freshwater will travel to the Labrador Sea off Canada, rather ...

30. March 2026/Kiel/Nuuk. Yesterday, the research cruise MSM142 set off with the research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN from Nuuk (Greenland) into the Labrador Sea. Under the leadership of the GEOMAR ...