For comparison, recent years have seen the Arctic Ocean with a minimum sea ice cover in September of around 1,274,000 square miles, which is about a third of the area of the US.

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is waning due to melting permafrost and worsening coastal erosion, according to new research.

Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to thicken sea ice using water from the ocean below have proved successful, says UK start-up Real Ice. Read more Antarctica’s 'doomsday ...

UiT The Arctic University of Norway. "Melting Arctic sea-ice could affect global ocean circulation." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 October 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 ...

Slowing ocean current could ease Arctic warming -- a little. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241025194434.htm ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this ...

The implications of an ice-free Arctic Ocean — which spans an area roughly equivalent to the size of the Lower 48 United States — are worrisome. According to the study, ...