The day the Arctic shows ice-free conditions is symbolically significant. It will visually highlight how humans have changed one of our planet's defining natural features: from a white to a blue ...

“Any reductions in emissions would help preserve sea ice,” says Jahn. The transformation of the Arctic from white to blue would mark a profound change in Earth’s appearance from space – a ...

The Arctic sea ice minimum in summer has reduced by 40% in ... In one of the most dramatic scenes that I witnessed for Blue Planet II, the colony stampeded into the water. It certainly seems ...

As dark water replaces ice, the Arctic Ocean absorbs more heat in summer and releases more in fall and winter—perhaps affecting weather elsewhere. One morning in March, under a dusky blue sky ...

Light pierces the ancient blue ice of a glacier cave as I frame the ... That kind of light is epic—Arctic light. The challenge, of course, is that the epic light is often also extremely low ...

(Andreas Preusser/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) As Arctic sea ice continues to thin and shrink, an essential feature of its ecosystem—pressure ridges—is becoming increasingly rare, saysa recent ...

The North Pole was above freezing on Sunday after an extreme winter warming event caused temperatures to climb more than 36 F (20 C) in the high Arctic.

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 ...

Wildfire aerosols from Canada, Alaska, and Russia, including organic carbon, are transported to the Arctic, influencing ice cloud formation at temperatures warmer than the typical −38°C.