Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change ...

NASA Earth Observatory, Jan. 6, 2021, The Long Decline of Arctic Sea Ice; Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or e-newspaper here.

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be gone by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, study says. ... Human impact on sea ice decline.

Sea ice levels in the Arctic Ocean are rapidly declining, due to global warming. Now, to understand and forecast the growth and decay of the ice, researchers have conducted a survey in the Arctic ...

Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the ...

An April 30 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of the area covered by Arctic sea ice. Areas highlighted in green show places where there was purportedly more sea ice on April 29 ...

Decline in Arctic Sea Ice. Arctic Sea ice has been declining dramatically since the late 1970s. This process has accelerated in the 21st century, with a decline rate of 4.7 percent per decade.

Scientists have been struggling to understand why Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly and continues to decline. Read more ...

Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The ...

The Arctic is seeing a rapid decline in sea ice even during the cold winter months when it should be recovering from the summer melt. Scientists say that one, often overlooked, factor is playing a ...

The following article is courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory: Sea ice at the top of the planet continued to shrink and thin in 2024. The maximum winter ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean is ...

Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA ...