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

What did the Arctic look like in the distant past? The answer carries significant implications for understanding how it will ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as well as the ocean's carbon budget.

Researchers are warning that Arctic Ocean sea ice is melting at an even faster pace than previously thought — and the region could experience its first ice-free conditions sometime before the 2030s.

Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades As its extent shrunk, the oldest and ...

Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

In the Arctic, there’s a chance that sea ice could disappear in the summer as soon as the 2030s. Already, since the U.S. government started measuring sea ice in 1979, more than 2 million kilometers of ...