Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum
This story is an update to the Antarctic sea ice feature in our World of Change series tracking…
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum
This story is an update to the Arctic sea ice feature in our World of Change series, which…
Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off
For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall, extending the…
Huge iceberg breaks apart from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
1. Satellites watched it happenChevron Down (European Space Agency) A gigantic chunk of Greenland just broke free, and…
Retreating Arctic sea ice exposes a hidden seafloor trap that could starve plankton of the nutrient they need
A little-known process on the Arctic seafloor is coming into focus as sea ice retreats, and scientists say…
A ‘triple whammy’ of chaos has triggered a downward spiral in Antarctica, scientists discover
For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the…
Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal have been reclassified as ‘Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation…
Barents Sea Tied to Low Arctic Sea Ice
At the top of the planet, the cap of sea ice across Arctic waters grows and shrinks with…
China’s huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the Arctic
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Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters – NASA Science
For most of the year, ice blankets the waterways of the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago. But during the…
For Antarctic Penguins, Molting Can Now Be Deadly
Emperor penguins can’t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new…
Polar bears bulk up despite melting Norwegian Arctic: study
Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the…