An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than expected.

University of Colorado Boulder As global temperatures rise due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, Arctic sea ice has ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025, marking the lowest extent in the 47-year satellite record. The shrinking sea ice, attributed to rising global temperatures from burning fossil ...

BOULDER, Colorado – The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 14.32 million sq km of sea ice covering the region at its ...

Credit: Gary Banziger (NASA Langley) and Ralph Kahn (NASA GSFC/University of Colorado Boulder ... aerosols and sea ice in the Arctic as part of the ARCSIX field campaign. In this image from ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world, scientists announced this week. Specifically, March sea ice ...

The Arctic has ended ... extent of sea ice cover is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) at the University of Boulder, Colorado, in the US ...

Hundreds of researchers are now in Boulder for the Arctic ... of everything from melting sea ice and caribou migration patterns to how quickly the Arctic is warming. Program officers within ...

Thanks to the efforts of Sarah's family and 1200+ generous donors, we met our first funding goal in May 2023 and created an endowment that supports a CU Boulder grad student every summer. Sarah's ...

Due to warmer temperatures in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre is currently losing large amounts of sea ice. The ice helps keep the ocean cool, acting as a lid. Thinner sea ice allows more heat from ...

CU-Boulder researchers are forecasting a 59 percent chance of a record low minimum extent of Arctic sea ice in 2008. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...