Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Several researchers the Barents Observer spoke with underline that sea ice extent has already changed dramatically. Just a ...

The extent of sea ice stretching across Earth ... regularly monitoring polar regions. “In the Arctic, we’ve seen a substantial, significant decrease over the satellite record,” said ...

“It is very likely that in the future, the Arctic Ocean is going to be another Atlantic or Pacific. There’s debate, but some Earth system models predict that over the next several decades, there will ...

Check your internet connection or browser settings. To map the record-low in the Arctic, I referred to the sea ice index provided by the NSIDC. Data is available as daily or monthly averages for ...

Global sea ice extent fell to its lowest recorded value in February, according to data analyzed by the Copernicus Climate ...

Joe Marten’s Feb. 25 letter (“Addressing energy poverty and combatting climate change) states I am “essentially claiming ...

Since 1979, the Arctic has lost 40% of its late-summer ice cover, Cavallo said. These rapid sea ice loss events could explain why climate models have failed to capture the true pace of this ...

A new method of tracking the dietary habits and contaminant exposure of animals in Arctic marine ecosystems is providing critical insights as climate change reshapes the region's food web.

From 2015 to 2024, sea levels have risen by an average of 4.7 millimetres a year, compared to 2.1mm from 1993 to 2002, WMO ...

Thinning Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland, as seen from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022. (NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, Marit ...

Such a rapid decrease is unusual at this time of year ... some of the crustacean species that live in the Arctic Ocean sea ice area were found in very low numbers or not at all.