And what happens in the Arctic trickles down to all of us. "If the sea ice disappears, the Arctic will warm faster and the planet will warm faster," Lehner said. Scientists say to slow the melting ...

With the hottest year in history just behind us, it is perhaps not surprising that the world's sea ice is in dire condition. Arctic sea ice has now dipped to its second lowest extent for January ...

The Arctic Ocean could ... showed the ocean going ice free for at least one day by 2030. To be classed as ice free, the ocean doesn’t literally have to have no ice at all. Scientists class ...

the Arctic’s ice cover simply retreated evenly along its southern flank as the planet warmed, ultimately settling right around the North Pole. “That makes no sense at all, though,” she says.

In a 2023 study, researchers found that the Arctic Ocean's ice cap would likely disappear in summer as soon as the 2030s and a decade earlier than thought, no matter how aggressively humanity ...

The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA), critical for ice-dependent species, could vanish within a decade, as revealed by a McGill University study using high-resolution models. Polar bears ...

There is no single international document ... Most of the ocean surface is covered by ice almost all year round. Five countries have access to the Arctic Ocean basin: Russia, Canada, the USA ...

PARIS – In 2025, the sea ice in the Arctic was the second lowest on record for January, according to a US analysis released on Feb 4, with areas around Greenland seeing temperatures well above ...