Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says. If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

The research team found that in 9 of the last 10 winters, sea ice extent was lower than average, including record lows in 2018 and 2019. During this period of sea ice loss, wind speeds and wave ...

The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite ...

Historically, walruses rarely ventured onto land. They would rest on ice floes near the fields of molluscs that they dive to eat. Arbugaeva said that Chukchi hunters remember a time when the sea ...

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

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Emperor penguins are dependent on stable sea ice, laying their eggs on this 'land-fast' ice in the winter between May and June. They hatch them 65 days later, and raise the chicks to fledge in the ...

A population of bowhead whales living in the western Arctic has long followed the same migration patterns. But new research suggests that climate change and the subsequent melting of sea ice are ...

Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in 2019, shocked the Northern ...

Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g ...

Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea levels to rise quickly as temperatures warmed after the last ice age. But researchers have lacked robust geological data from ...

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 ...