Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is ...

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

The Arctic is known to be melting at an alarming ... This warming can also disrupt wind and ocean current patterns, causing more extreme weather events globally. But there’s still hope.

Even minor temperature changes show drastic impacts on Earth's North and South poles and soon one of them will turn ice-free.

They will learn about Arctic Ocean currents, sea ice, research technology, and expedition planning, and they will even send small wooden boats to the North Pole to track their movements. Local ...

In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly ... Pressure ridges are produced by lateral pressures on sea ice. Wind or ocean currents can stack floes up, forming metre-thick ridges.

The Arctic Ice Project has put forward the idea ... building "free-floating" underwater sea walls that "block the warm ocean currents from melting the glacier from below" and mimicking the cooling ...

In 2024, annual average global air temperatures surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time, ...