"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic ...

Arctic temperatures spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its ...

plants and the roughly 4 million people who live in the Arctic — it has global consequences. Sea ice acts like a giant mirror, reflecting the sunlight away from the Earth and back into space.

Melting at Record Rates The Arctic is melting at a pace that has alarmed scientists and environmentalists worldwide. This ...

Arctic climate change went into overdrive in 2016, with record high temperatures eclipsing anything seen since at least 1900. Accompanying the record warmth were freak losses of sea ice ...

The Arctic saw particularly high temperatures in February, with one area near the North Pole 19.8 F hotter than average.

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 ...

This data, which combines the extent of sea ice from the Arctic and Antarctic, has records that date back to the late 1970s. Previously, 2023 held the record low for global ice following decades ...

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 ...

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the consequences of climate change in the Arctic. They focused on a group ...