The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to ...

Since the late 1970s, satellites have been spying on Antarctica’s sea ice, watching the whiteness expand and contract with the seasons. But they’ve never seen the ice quite like it is right ...

Last month’s record low for the global sea ice extent came on what Copernicus said was the third warmest February globally. The agency said it marked the 19th month out of the past 20 in which ...

Environment Why vanishing sea ice at the poles is a crisis for the entire planet. Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming ...

Sea ice plays an enormous role in Earth’s climate. It keeps ocean salinity in check and stabilizes the massive currents, both ocean and atmospheric, that circulate around the world. But the Arctic is ...

Winter sea ice in the Arctic just hit a record low. Just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed as of March 22, the smallest maximum extent since satellite recordkeeping began in the 1970s.

According to the study, the massive Pine Island Ice Shelf is in danger of collapsing. If it does, it could raise sea levels by 1.6 feet. The threat and terrifying effects of climate change have ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

The NSIDC monitors the extent of sea ice across the globe and estimates that the annual minimum sea ice coverage in the Antarctic was about 1.98 million square kilometers or 764 thousand square miles.

As sea ice melts and opens new routes for maritime traffic in the Arctic, the environmental fallout caused by vessels burning fossil fuels adds to global warming, which in turn melts more sea ice ...