For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA)—a vital habitat for ice-dependent species—might disappear within a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in summer, which is expected to ...

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is exacerbated by climate change. When most Americans think about climate change, ...

The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA), critical for ice-dependent species, could vanish within a decade, as revealed by a McGill University study using high-resolution models.

New autonomous system to monitor Arctic's melting ice Date: February 10, 2025 Source: Florida Atlantic University Summary: Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method ...

Sea ice scientists, Fuchs says, can instead use high-resolution satellite data to show the color of melt ponds as well as the reflectivity in the different wavelengths and bands to show how that ...

By the time a toddler graduates from high school, summer sea ice in the high North could be a thing of the past. The Arctic Ocean off Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska in June 2015, after an ...

Nearly all of the Arctic’s sea ice could melt by the summer of 2027, a group of international scientists has warned.. Sea ice – frozen seawater that floats on the ocean’s surface – in the ...

Arctic sea ice extent averaged 3.51 million square miles for the month, which was 753,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average for the period, according to data released Tuesday by the ...