Each September, the ice at the top of the world hits its lowest extent of the year. Researchers are studying how a warming ...

It's not a great year for polar sea ice. Both the Arctic and Antarctic have seen record lows in sea ice extent, according to ...

They should be shivering in fright because an ice-free Arctic Ocean could be an event big enough to tip the world’s climate into much faster, irreversible warming.

On September 10, the ice reached its lowest annual maximum in the books amid a record-smashing year that's ringing "alarm ...

Global sea ice extent is at a record low for this time of year, due to rapid Antarctic sea ice melt and below-average Arctic ...

New research has shown that an oscillating pattern of wind and water currents has been keeping the Arctic ice loss relatively ...

W INTER IS COMING to an end in Antarctica, while summer is wrapping up at the other end of the globe. During this time, sea ice in the south reaches its highest yearly extent, whereas in the north it ...

Lake SS85 is one of hundreds of lakes dotting this 90-mile-wide fringe of land between the towering Greenland Ice Sheet and ...

For millennia, Greenland's Arctic lakes have locked up vast stores of carbon. In a warming climate, scientists think that ...

News outlets are reporting the Arctic is getting very warm and the surrounding sea ice is taking a hit. Temperatures are 15 degrees higher than normal, glaciers are retreating, and the north shore of ...

Images captured by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist were incorporated into clothing, showing how brittle new sea ...

Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data ...