Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere ...

A regime shift for Antarctic sea ice? Arctic sea ice has long been in decline. Both the area of ice coverage and its ...

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of Antarctic ice, due to the climate crisis, is, sadly, no longer surprising.

A study by Hokkaido University researchers has shown that floating ice in the Sea of Okhotsk is not only dwindling in terms of coverage area, but has also lost 30 percent of its thickness across a ...

Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

A record low for Arctic winter sea ice has led to a record low for our planet's sea ice content as a whole. New research from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...