Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

The Arctic is warming at three to four times the global average. However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected Arctic warming by up to 2 degrees Celsius ...

For scientists, an ice-free Arctic doesn’t mean there would be zero ice in the water. Instead, researchers say the Arctic is ice-free when the ocean has less than 1 million square kilometers (386,000 ...

The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...

The arctic blast has hit Oklahoma, bringing frigid temperatures as well as a snow and ice risk to Oklahoma on Tuesday. >> See ...

The study is careful to focus on just the first ice-free day — by scientific definitions, that’s the first time Arctic sea ice cover shrinks below 1 million square kilometers, or 386,102 ...

End-of-summer sea ice concentration across the Arctic in September 2022. The ice cover was below the 1991-2020 median (white line) and well below the 1981-2020 median (gold line).Median means in ...

Samples of plankton collected in the Arctic Ocean near Norway revealed something surprising: single-celled creatures that belonged thousands of miles to the south where the conditions are balmier.

Melting ice in the Arctic could unleash deadly 'zombie' viruses, ... Since Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill back in 2020, ... cells escape permafrost every year at current rates.

The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade. University of Colorado at Boulder. Journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment DOI 10.1038/s43017-023-00515-9 ...