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

NOAA Reports World-Wide February 2025 had Above-Average Temperatures Over Most Areas; Lowest Global and Arctic Sea Ice Extent ...

according to NOAA. A warmer Arctic means land ice — glaciers and ice sheets — melts faster, adding to sea level rise. The Greenland ice sheet already sheds around 280 billion tons of ice a ...

Map of Arctic Ocean sea ice at 2024 summer minimum extent, compared to the median extent from 1981-2010. (NOAA) Global sea ice reached a new record low in February, according to the European Union's ...

"It’s alluding to the fact that this thicker sea ice north of Greenland is not as sustainable as it once was," Linette Boisvert, the ARCSIX cryosphere lead, told Space.com. The Arctic has lost ...

Credit: noaa At a press conference during the annual ... thicker sea ice that is more resistant to melting. The Arctic sea ice minimum extent from mid-October 2016 to late November 2016 was ...

The Arctic had previously set a record low for minimum (summer) ice just last year in September. According to NOAA, sea ice helps prevent further warming of the globe, and the loss of ice impacts ...

And what happens in the Arctic trickles down to all of us. "If the sea ice disappears, the Arctic will warm faster and the planet will warm faster," Lehner said. Scientists say to slow the melting ...

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 ...