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

With sea traffic set to rise in a warming Arctic, researchers are helping sailors plot a safer course through sea ice and ...

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

while Antarctic sea-ice is close to a new low in satellite records going back to the late 1970s. The decline of Arctic sea-ice in response to a warming planet is well-established. Its end-of-summer ...

Arctic sea ice bottoms out at the end of summer in September ... in the top three of the most intense warming events in the satellite era since the 1970s. The thawing of permafrost — a jumble ...

In the 1980s satellite data showed that Arctic sea ice extended on average across nearly three million square miles at the end of summer. Since then more than a million square miles has been lost ...

The loss of Arctic ... Ocean in the summer, with all the cascading repercussions throughout ecosystems and weather patterns that would entail. However, Jahn, who studies Arctic sea ice and ocean ...

The WWF and BAS science teams visited beaches where walrus haul out in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic last summer. Despite it being a successful trip to help calibrate and validate satellite ...

The extent of sea ice stretching across ... monitoring polar regions. “In the Arctic, we’ve seen a substantial, significant decrease over the satellite record,” said Walt Meier, a senior ...