It’s late in the season so Captain Duke Snider, sailing on a resupply voyage from New Zealand to Antarctica, is expecting ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

Social media posts sharing a graphic comparing sea ice levels in the Antarctic on the same date 45 years apart misrepresent ...

Arctic Ice Buildup The Arctic region has long been covered with a solid white blanket of ice, commonly known as the Arctic ...

On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...

Among them, the "Last Ice Area" seemed to resist the upheavals of climate change. However, a new study suggests that it could disappear much faster than expected, disrupting the balance of this unique ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

A Jan. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows heat maps of the ... National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY. "The (sea ice extent) trends for the Arctic and Antarctic are ...

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 ...

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 ...