This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world.

Since satellites began tracking it, Arctic sea ice's winter peak has shrunk by an area about the size of Pakistan. View on ...

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ...

Researchers found that the Greenland ice sheet is teeming with algae that could dramatically speed up melting.

While Arctic sea ice extent hasn’t definitively reached its seasonal peak yet at the time of writing, the melting season is about to begin any day now, at which point it will be clear whether this was ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise ... In September, the month of the Arctic annual minimum, the decline rate was 12.1 percent per decade from 1979 to 2024. Antarctic sea ...

This record indicates that the ice cover present in the Arctic is young and thin, and therefore more susceptible to melting during the upcoming spring and summer, possibly leading to another ...

as the Arctic increasingly becomes contested geopolitically. Russian and Chinese warships and submarines are active in the region and melting sea ice is opening up new shipping lanes. Carney said ...

“It is very likely that in the future, the Arctic Ocean is going to be another Atlantic or Pacific. There’s debate, but some Earth system models predict that over the next several decades, there will ...