The formation of sea ice also makes the surrounding water saltier, as salt is pushed out when water freezes. If less sea ice ...

It's November 2024. Small red flags flap lazily in the breeze on the sea ice in front of Scott Base. They mark a safe route ...

Other cruises will continue past years’ monitoring work in the Chukchi and Northern Bering seas, and the final cruise will be ...

and the final cruise will be used to help study how landfast ice — a term of ice attached to the coastline or shallow sea floor — forms on the Arctic Alaska coastline, he said. The Sikuliaq is ...

global sea ice (both the Arctic and Antarctic combined), hit a record low since satellite monitoring began. Sea ice includes both land-fast ice and pack ice. Pack ice is the name for floating ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world.

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have said that Arctic sea ice most likely reached its yearly ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new study. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with ...