As Arctic sea ice continues to thin and shrink, an essential feature of its ecosystem—pressure ridges—is becoming ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA), a critical habitat for animals that depend on sea ice, could vanish within a decade after ...

17). He takes issue with my reporting that the influence of human sulfur pollution since WWII has driven the extent of the Arctic sea ice. I strongly disagree with Mr. Brandt’s claim that it is ...

The number one issue facing the Arctic is climate change. Since the 1990s, Arctic sea ice has declined by 7.6 trillion metric tons, with the rate of loss increasing by 57%. Besides contributing to ...

An increase in large fires in the Western U.S. is being fueled by declines in Arctic Sea ice, and the impact of this decline on fires along the West Coast is as big as that of El Niño ...