A study reveals that geoengineering plans to save polar ice would not work and could cause environmental damage.

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of US data showed Wednesday, as ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

Version 2 of Arctic Sea Ice Seasonal Change and Melt/Freeze Climate Indicators from Satellite Data, Version 2, is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive ...

Explore the dramatic impact of melting polar ice caps on sea levels, climate patterns, and ecosystems worldwide. Understand how this scenario could reshape coastlines, weather, and life on Earth.

June-July(JJ) Arctic sea ice extent related to the second half of South Asian summer monsoon rainfall (i.e., August-September :AS). (a) Detrended and normalized (by its standard deviation) Arctic sea ...

Arctic naval operations expose a communications gap because equatorial military satellites cannot reliably cover polar regions, pushing the Pentagon to consider new satellite and airborne relay ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing areas on Earth. By studying the Arctic and Antarctic, she and other scientists ...

Elmer Brown was following two friends on his four-wheeler last November, hunting caribou across a frozen channel in northern Alaska when the ice gave way. All three plunged into the frigid water. One ...

You've probably noticed the headlines. Ice is melting faster than before, glaciers are shrinking, and polar regions are changing in ways that seem almost hard to believe. Scientists who study these ...