Arctic ponds that have existed for thousands of years are now disappearing because of climate change, according to a study by John Smol from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada and Marianne ...

creating ponds and waterways that accelerate the melt, a process known as abrupt thawing. A warmer Arctic is also opening the door for one of Earth’s most damaging invasive species: us.

The 2016 melt season started off slow, but dramatically accelerated in August, according to Zack Labe, a PhD student at the University of California at Irvine who keeps a close eye on Arctic sea ...

Or to put it another way, in a given year, the average American melts about 538 square feet of Arctic sea ice at the end of the summer melt season. The study, published in the journal Science this ...

That causes more ground to warm and more ice to melt ... into the Colville River and the Arctic Ocean. Along the Alatna, above Lodge Mahal, we found other ponds and abandoned dams.

"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else ... 16, when seasonal sea ice melt was at its height. The team expected to find ice with a thickness of about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters); instead ...

For Arrigo and his team, it was also a rare opportunity to study the Arctic marine ecosystem firsthand. “It’s so hard to get up there, and so few people do,” says Sam Laney, a marine biologist at ...

The Arctic is losing sea ice at an unprecedented rate, with 12% melting each decade, pushing towards an alarming ice-free milestone as soon as 2027, according to a Nature Communications study.