A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent ... The results reveal a delicate balance between wind and ocean as the sea ice pack recedes under climate change.

The MOSAiC expedition’s key goal is to remedy the current uncertainty in climate modelling regarding the Arctic ... ice. By sticking around for the full year and drifting with the ice pack ...

Over the past several decades, the Arctic has warmed four times faster than the rest of the world, a 2022 study showed. There has already been a rapid loss of sea ice in the region, with September ...

Last month was extreme: Temperatures in parts of the Arctic spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its lowest level ever recorded for ...

With their publication, suddenly the world recognized the threat that warming posed to the ice pack. Since then, a number of scientists have made projections about when the Arctic would see its ...

They found that the sea ice speeds up where the Transpolar Drift Stream, one of the Arctic's Ocean major currents, ends and the fast-moving East Greenland Current, which forms due to a combination ...

with current global climate pledges putting the planet on track for more than 2.6 C of warming by the end of the century. That means the Arctic’s first ice-free day is likely to occur within two ...

“It’s not recovering. There are going to be ups and downs, but it’s never going to go back to what it was, given our current climate state today.” Arctic sea ice influences climate and ...

the Arctic’s first ice-free day. One particularly striking finding was that in the year when ice-free conditions occurred, ...

However, current climate models have been unable to account for this increased pace. The most common clouds found in the Arctic are mixed-phase clouds, which contain both ice crystals and ...