New research supported by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Third Party Missions programme has generated Arctic-wide sea ice freeboard maps using GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data captured by Spire ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland. Pexels The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern ...

A research team has found that summer rainfall in the Arctic would increase by about 17% under 2°C global warming, approximately 16% of which is attributed to sea ice retreat. Their findings were ...

Arctic sea ice has long been one of the planet’s most sensitive climate barometers, but until now scientists have struggled to say with confidence how much ice will survive a given summer. A new ...

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 ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...

Reykjaviik, Iceland — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it's set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable. The ...

The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling that change. Cracks in sea ice release heat and pollutants that form clouds ...

Regional subdivisions (left) and seasonal decline of total Arctic sea ice extent during summer melt (right), highlighting 2024, 2023, and the record low of 2012. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2026 — Arctic sea ...