Scientists succeeded in thickening and lightening Arctic ice using seawater in an innovative climate experiment.

A hidden change in Arctic geography may have disrupted the ice age rhythm and transformed the global climate over thousands ...

"The changes we report suggest that the Arctic Ocean ecosystem passed a tipping point around 2009." ...

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 ...

In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent) reached the lowest value since satellite observations began in 1979, following the previous record low in March 2025. As part of the ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

The agency says its new dataset is better, but ice measurements will take time. “Bad news for climate monitoring,” one scientist lamented. Researchers studying the long-term effects of climate change ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most high-profile ...