This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Since satellites began tracking it, Arctic sea ice's winter peak has shrunk by an area about the size of Pakistan. View on ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square ...

Global sea ice, which takes into account the sea ice total from both the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions, reached a new all-time minimum for February and stayed in record territory for the ...

There’s debate, but some Earth system models predict that over the next several decades, there will be nearly no sea ice in the Arctic Ocean in the summer, imposing significant consequences on ...

Combined Antarctic and Arctic sea ice cover -- ocean water that freezes and floats on the surface -- dropped to a record minimum extent of 16.04 million square kilometres (6.19 million square ...

In the last few years, Antarctic sea ice has been behaving erratically. Sea ice cover has been much more variable than it used to be, with anomalies lasting much longer than previously documented.

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...