A massive chunk of sea ice in West Antarctica has not refrozen following a winter heatwave in the region – a dramatic change ...

A study led by South African scientists reveals that during winter, the sea ice around Antarctica harbors a reservoir of microbes, most of which have one thing in common—the ability to produce and ...

They’re putting the Arctic on ice. Scientists have been working to stave off summer in one of the Earth’s coldest places in a ...

Polar bear subpopulations across the Arctic are losing genetic diversity and showing divergent gene activity as sea ice ...

The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. To predict how ocean currents in the ...

An area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as ...

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, ...

Amid all the changes in Earth's climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an odd exception. The maximum winter sea ice cover remained steady or even ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

Global sea ice reached a new record low in February, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. This data, which combines the extent of sea ice from the Arctic and Antarctic, ...

University of Utah mathematics and climate researchers are building new models for understanding the dynamics of sea ice, which is not as solid as you might think. Polar sea ice is ever-changing. It ...

Antarctica is the world’s great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth’s climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea ice around the ...