A warm start to the winter created tricky conditions for iced-base recreation like fishing, which is popular in Wyoming.

The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that ...

PETER LEOPOLD, NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE (NPI) Wearing a dry suit, Kukliński observes the flora and fauna living under thick, perennial ice. The ice floe and around 15 inches of snow on its ...

While compound extreme events across the bulk of the planet are characterized by hot and dry conditions, those over polar ice sheets are predominantly associated with hot and wet conditions, according ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...

Then the polar bear appears. She’s big ... In between dives they rest on sea ice; dry land is a less convenient substitute. Photograph by FLORIAN LEDOUX Climate models suggest that by the ...

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...

Arctic sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. (Céline Heuzé/University of Gothenburg) (CN) — The countdown to an ice-free Arctic is ticking, with the Arctic Ocean potentially experiencing its ...

The shrinking sea-ice in the Arctic is not only a sign of climate change, it is causing the planet to warm more quickly. This is because more sunlight is being absorbed by the darker ocean ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...