In 1979, American listening posts detected a Soviet submarine moving at impossible speeds beneath the Barents Sea. Built from ...

Days after a top U.S. general said Russia is testing the American military during the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Navy sent four ships into the Barents Sea for the first time in decades. Three ...

Encouraged by recently opened areas and potentially huge yet-to-be-discovered resources, oil companies launched a record exploration drilling campaign in Norway’s Barents Sea this year. But as the ...

In the last few decades, Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent. One of the main drivers of this development is ...

The latest 3D seismic surveys suggest that there may be billions of barrels of undiscovered oil in the Barents Sea, according to a geology and geophysics expert in an interview with Norwegian ...

Equinor ASA EQNR, a Norwegian integrated energy company, announced a new oil discovery in the Barents Sea, which will be tied to the Johan Castberg field. The Johan Castberg field is located in the ...

Warm, salty water from the Atlantic has been pushing farther into the Arctic through the Barents Sea for decades, a process scientists call atlantification. A new study argues the missing clue is not ...

A recent study by researchers in Norway shows that the northwest Barents Sea warmed substantially during the last decades. The temperature of the subsurface Atlantic Water in the northern Barents Sea ...

Discover how marine heat waves in the Arctic have surged since the 1980s, with events lasting over a year due to melting ice and warming temperatures, disrupting ecosystems and impacting global ...