Every March, Arctic sea ice completes its winter expansion and reaches its annual peak before the spring melt begins. This ...

With the Arctic sea ice maintaining its trend of declining, average extent since the 1980s, there is another side to the story with a unique, slightly more positive statistic. The Arctic sea ice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may be surprised to learn that despite our cold start to the month, the Arctic is a different story. While we have been seeing ...

Melting Arctic ice is releasing tiny particles that help form clouds, reshaping climate in one of Earth’s fastest-warming ...

Right now, the Arctic is maxing out on sea ice – the cold of winter has built up over months of darkness, and ice has spread as far south as it will all year. It’s the North Pole’s sea ice maximum, ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, atmospheric patterns, and extreme weather conditions, even outside the Arctic ...

The North Pole’s sea ice has reached its lowest level for the winter season as increasing temperatures break records across the continents, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), ...

For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached ...