Record-Breaking Lows in World’s Sea Ice Worries Scientists as It Poses Danger to the Environment The world’s sea ice is in ...

The Fragile Beauty of the Arctic Ice Arctic ice is renowned for its shimmering beauty, forming a colossal frozen cap that ...

Giant cyclones of snow and ice are breaking up thin ice in the Arctic, leading to rapid ice loss events, and it’s happening more now than ever before. A scientist at OU described an unusually powerful ...

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A study links these storms to rapid ice depletion and suggests that tropopause ...

The new study reveals that the Arctic seismology station was picking up tiny vibrations from ocean waves crashing into the shore miles away—indirectly tracking the rise and fall of ice. This data is ...

Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting ...

The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as much as elsewhere. The Greenland and Antarctic ice ...

Since 1979, Arctic sea ice extent, a term that describes the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice, has been reduced by 40% in the late summer months. Global climate models have consistently ...

The world’s most northernmost town Longyearbyen is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Every winter, its ...

Now, using field and climate data, scientists have linked aerosols emitted by Canadian wildfires in 2023 to the formation of ice clouds over the Arctic Ocean. Ice nucleating particles as a kind of ...

They will learn about Arctic Ocean currents, sea ice, research technology, and expedition planning, and they will even send small wooden boats to the North Pole to track their movements. Local ...