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The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery ...
According to the World Wildlife Fund, Arctic sea ice has decreased at a rate of around 13 percent per decade. Over the past three decades, the thickest ice has decreased by 95 percent, it reports.
Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025, marking the lowest extent in the 47-year satellite record. The shrinking sea ice, attributed to rising global temperatures from burning fossil ...
Also this week, NSIDC has revealed that Arctic sea ice (which is at its greatest extent around this time of year) is at a record low. Arctic sea ice reached 5.53 million sq miles (14.33 million sq ...
BOULDER, Colo. — The Arctic Ocean’s pristine white ice cap, a defining feature of our planet visible even from space, could undergo a historic transformation in the next few years. A new study ...
Arctic Reflections notes that rising global temperatures have "reduced the Arctic sea ice volume already by 75% over the last 40 years." ...
View across the ocean. With course to the northeast, across the Barents Sea, the German Polarstern research vessel leaves the harbour of Tromsø. In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has ...
Gauging Arctic Summer Sea Ice MeltingEarlier this year Arctic sea ice sank to a record low wintertime extent for the third straight year. Now NASA is flying a set of instruments north of Greenland ...
Earlier research projected it would be virtually ice-free by late in the century if higher greenhouse gas emissions continued unabated. Sea ice affects Arctic communities and wildlife such as ...
The Arctic is the early warning system for climate change and the loss of sea ice is a clear sign it’s in trouble, scientists say. It should be reaching its annual maximum levels of ice at this ...
Predictions indicate that the earliest ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean could potentially occur sometime in the 2020s to the 2030s and are likely to happen before the 2050s, the study found.
Despite the arrival of frigid winter temperatures north of Alaska, the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean ended 2011 far below average in both extent and volume, continuing its decades-long shrink toward ...