Scientists say that this decline has an impact on fire weather by influencing air temperature and precipitation rates globally.

The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...

In the Arctic, the old, multi-year ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not Earth's climate is changing.

In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ...

Air temperatures in December 2024 were above average over the entire Arctic Ocean, continuing the pattern set in ...

An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) model, capable of predicting changes in Arctic sea ice up to a year in advance, ...

According to researchers, since 1979, the Arctic has lost sea ice at an alarming rate of more than 12% per decade. In September 2023, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported one of the lowest ...

Arctic sea ice is undergoing profound changes, with older, rugged ice diminishing and younger, smoother ice becoming more ...

Over the Arctic Report Card’s 19 years ... are currently healthy despite sea ice decline and warming ocean waters in their Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort sea habitats. However, ringed seals ...