The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw ... from the force of wind and ocean currents. Last February I stood shivering ...

Comparing a variety of computer models and satellite data, she and her colleagues found that winds and currents conspire to funnel drifting sea ice from all over the Arctic onto the northern edges ...

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

Scientists warn the Arctic is changing rapidly due to warming. Ice is melting, sea levels are rising, and weather patterns ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic ... is wrong about Arctic sea ice and climate ...

Scientists are working on a way to be able to 'grow' ice ... Arctic have seen sea ice be thickened successfully. A report in New Scientist claims if nothing is done about it, the current rate ...

An increase in large fires in the Western U.S. is being fueled by declines in Arctic Sea ice, and the impact of this decline on fires along the West Coast is as big as that of El Niño ...

While scientists have long studied when the Arctic might become ice-free during September (typically when sea ice reaches its ... the ice extent typically fell below current levels (as measured ...