Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Issues surrounding polar ice have long been a topic of concern. Scientists make surprising discovery after studying ice in ...

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be gone by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, study says. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

The first ice-free days of the Arctic Ocean could occur as soon as the 2020s or 2030s — as many as 10 years earlier than previous projections.

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

For comparison, recent years have seen the Arctic Ocean with a minimum sea ice cover in September of around 1,274,000 square miles, which is about a third of the area of the US.

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

Instead, polar scientists created a definition for an ice-free Arctic as when less than 1 million square kilometers (0.39 million square miles) of ice can be found within the Arctic Ocean.