Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A ...

Sea ice waxes and wanes throughout the year, but in Antarctic it reaches a minimum extent in February and a maximum in September after a long, cold winter. In the Arctic, meanwhile, the total ...

The world currently has less sea ice than ever before according to a new analysis, with both the Arctic and Antarctic ...

Global sea ice cover dipped to a new record low last week. Over the five-days leading up to February 13, the combined extent of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice dropped to 15.76 million sq km, down from ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

Giant cyclones of snow and ice are breaking up thin ice in the Arctic, leading to rapid ice loss events, and it’s happening more now than ever before. A scientist at OU described an unusually powerful ...

Greenland's ice sheet has been losing a staggering amount of ice at an accelerating rate. A tipping point could come by the ...

Countless cities in Europe and Japan were destroyed during World War II, but they were rebuilt, and their inhabitants were at the center of the reconstruction. But there are no recent examples ...

The organization had spent more than a decade researching a controversial strategy to preserve the Arctic’s melting sea ice — by covering it with reflective substances designed to beam ...

Earth passed the 1.5°C warming limit in 2024. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world.