The ice floe and around 15 inches of snow on its surface reflect most sunlight, darkening the ocean below. Arctic cod hide in a crack in the ice. As the Arctic warms, ice is melting earlier in the ...

The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost ...

cracked pipelines, and collapsed ice cellars where Arctic hunters store walrus meat and bowhead whale blubber. Warm summers are already warping life for Arctic residents. What the Zimovs were ...

The study found that the albedo effect in the Arctic was falling decade-on-decade A loss of snow and ice cover are the main reasons for a reduction in the Arctic's ability to reflect heat ...

The shrinking sea-ice in the Arctic is not only a sign of climate change, it is causing the planet to warm more quickly. This is because more sunlight is being absorbed by the darker ocean ...

The Arctic is losing sea ice at an unprecedented rate, with 12% melting each decade, pushing towards an alarming ice-free milestone as soon as 2027, according to a Nature Communications study.

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...

YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel now under construction here will be capable of smashing through sea ice up to 1.2 meters thick to reach the northern polar region to study sea ...