Measuring Changes In Arctic Sea Ice Date: March 30, 2007 Source: University Of Alaska, Fairbanks Summary: Arctic sea ice is in constant motion. It rides on the ocean, absorbing energy from the ...

Sponsor Message "As we have a thinner ice pack, that changes the way energy transfers through the ice," Shupe says. "It changes how the ice breaks up, how the ice moves around.

Utqiaġvik is a place many scientists call“ ground zero for climate change.” There, sea ice has all but vanished in the summer, as it has across much of the Arctic, where warming is ...

The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19 percent last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

Microscopic organisms thrive in polar-ice 'brine channels' whose conditions mirror some of those found in space.

The ice covered 5.84 million square miles (15.13 million square kilometers), the sixth-lowest area on record since 1979. Most of the ice was young, first-year ice, freshly frozen.

Satellite data shows that the Arctic ice pack covers 4.24 million square kilometers (1.63 million square miles). The previous record low of 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square ...

A younger, thinner Arctic ice cover: Increased potential for rapid, extensive sea-ice loss. Geophysical Research Letters, 2007; 34 (24): L24501 DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032043 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The shrunken Arctic ice pack could be to blame for the warm rains showering Alaska while typically milder Georgia and Florida freeze, experts said on Friday. The ...

In September 2012, sea-ice extent in the Arctic reached a record low. The floes of drifting ice are also now substantially thinner, younger, and faster moving overall than those observed in the ...

"Knowing how snow and ice affect the atmosphere is becoming even more important considering the changing Arctic ice pack and changing Arctic temperatures," said researcher William R. Simpson.