"Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest maximum extent on record on Sept. 10 at a time when the ice cover should have been ...

Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data ...

News outlets are reporting the Arctic is getting very warm and the surrounding sea ice is taking a hit. Temperatures are 15 degrees higher than normal, glaciers are retreating, and the north shore of ...

It's not a great year for polar sea ice. Both the Arctic and Antarctic have seen record lows in sea ice extent, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which use satellite ...

Global sea ice extent is at a record low for this time of year, due to rapid Antarctic sea ice melt and below-average Arctic ...

They should be shivering in fright because an ice-free Arctic Ocean could be an event big enough to tip the world’s climate into much faster, irreversible warming.

W INTER IS COMING to an end in Antarctica, while summer is wrapping up at the other end of the globe. During this time, sea ice in the south reaches its highest yearly extent, whereas in the north it ...

For millennia, Greenland's Arctic lakes have locked up vast stores of carbon. In a warming climate, scientists think that ...

Lake SS85 is one of hundreds of lakes dotting this 90-mile-wide fringe of land between the towering Greenland Ice Sheet and ...

Antarctic sea ice was reported last Feb. 13 to consist of just 737,000 square miles (1.91 million square kilometers). These figures meant a significant drop from the 741,000 square miles (1.92 ...

There is an emptiness to the Arctic that is mesmerizing. Traveling across it by ship, you’ll encounter patches of ...

On September 10, the ice reached its lowest annual maximum in the books amid a record-smashing year that's ringing "alarm ...