On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

Researchers say tugboats could tow huge underwater parachutes around the ocean to manually power a vital ocean current.

Extreme lows in sea ice induce many changes in the physical, ecological, and societal systems of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. A: an average sea ice summer. B: an extreme low sea ice summer. In B ...

Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Makarov said about how the Arctic affects the Global South countries ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

AAP FactCheck - The average area of Arctic sea ice has been steadily declining for decades, contrary to a claim on social media that it has "never changed".

The low extent of this year provides another data point for a continuous trend of diminishing Arctic sea ice.” ADVERTISEMENT Stuefer added that amplified warming across open waters might lead to ...

The 2025 ice extent line was also found to be even smaller than 2017. While 2017's average was lower, the 2025 ice extent was 130,000 square kilometers lower, making it the smallest since 1979.

In 2012, we reached a new record low minimum sea ice extent in September. Look how 2012 compared to 1984’s minimum. Each of the last 20 years has had below normal Arctic sea ice.

Apr 01, 2025 10:00:00 Arctic sea ice extent reaches new low in satellite observation history. The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic ...

Every year, the Arctic freezes. The sea ice of the Arctic reaches its maximum extent every year in March, and then as the season changes to spring, it begins to melt to its minimum about six months ...