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 ...

There is much scientific disagreement about the remote effects of Arctic sea ice loss. So far, many studies have focused on the long-term effects, on a scale of centuries. Others have investigated ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice is linked to drier winters in California and wetter winters in the Iberian Peninsula. This conclusion was reached by isolating the effects of Arctic ice loss from other ...

A study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has used a novel approach to unravel the influence of the loss of ...

The Arctic now exists within a “new regime,” where signals such as sea ice loss and ocean temperatures may not always break records, but are consistently more extreme compared to the past ...

Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, ...

Research has shown that Arctic sea ice loss may be changing weather patterns across large portions of North America, Europe and Asia. A study published on March 15 found that sea ice loss is ...

Global sea ice, which takes into account the sea ice total from both the Arctic and Antarctic polar ... The main driver in the loss of sea ice is the global air temperatures.