When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached. Slowly through spring, then accelerating through summer, most of that ice ...

Record-low winter sea ice in the Arctic this year adds to a continued trend of decreasing seasonal sea ice and an increase in threats faced by communities along Alaska’s northern and western shores.

TOKYO (Bernama-QNA): The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter ... A map provided by the report showed that the sea ice extent in 2017 was significantly lower than 2012 ...

Arctic sea ice melts and regrows over the year, freezing throughout the winter months to reach a maximum extent in late February or March, then melting through the summer to hit a low point in ...

“We used to think starting off on a bad footing” ahead of the Arctic summer “didn’t necessarily mean a very low September sea ice extent”, said Prof Serreze. More snowfall in the ...

Spring is also coming to the Arctic. This means that the winter growth of sea ice ends – and thus a record winter. However, this is a negative record: never before has there been so little ...

Last weekend, on March 22, the Arctic Sea ... Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder. Though the researchers have stressed that changes in weather and late-season ...

Arctic sea ice extent changes throughout the year. It grows during the winter towards its annual maximum extent – often referred to as its “winter peak” – in February or March. It then melts ...

The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter of ... A map provided by the report showed that the sea ice extent in 2017 was significantly lower than 2012 levels and the average ...