With the Arctic sea ice maintaining its trend of declining, average extent since the 1980s, there is another side to the story with a unique, slightly more positive statistic. The Arctic sea ice ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

Arctic sea ice is on track to record one of its smallest winter peaks since satellite monitoring began four decades ago, raising fresh concerns about .

In late March, when sea ice extension in the Arctic should be at its highest, scientists studied satellites showing how far the ice reached across the region. What they found was the lowest extension ...

Sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its minimum extent for 2025 on Sept. 10, covering 4.602 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles) concluding this year’s summer melt-out.

Under the influence of global warming, the Arctic is transitioning from a state dominated by multi-year thick ice to a "New Arctic" characterized predominantly by first-year thin ice. This younger ice ...

View across the ocean. With course to the northeast, across the Barents Sea, the German Polarstern research vessel leaves the harbour of Tromsø. In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, atmospheric patterns, and extreme weather conditions, even outside the Arctic ...

CLEVELAND — November is here and the weather community is watching the Arctic closely for a greater insight on the upcoming winter. Overall, this year’s sea ice growth is running behind normal pace.

The Trump administration is ending National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration services that monitor Arctic sea ice and snow cover, leading climate scientists said Tuesday. NOAA’s National Centers ...

What did the Arctic look like in the distant past? The answer carries significant implications for understanding how it will change in the future in the context of human-driven global warming. Yet ...

Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier in the year. Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past ...