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Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been...
On March 7, 2017, Arctic sea ice reached its annual wintertime maximum extent, according to scientists at the...
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have...
As the northern hemisphere experiences the heat of summer, ice moves and melts in the Arctic waters and the far...
Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent Sept. 19, and then again on Sept. 23, 2018. NASA works with the...
Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year,...
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record...
ICESat-2 will measure heights or elevations. In order to derive sea ice thickness from those measurements, it will...
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since...
Sea ice is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Bellingshausen Sea...
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes...
Antarctica—the continent at the southernmost reach of the planet—is fringed by cold, often frozen waters of the...
A large cyclone that crossed the Arctic in December 2015 brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid...
Sea level rise is a natural consequence of the warming of our planet. We know this from basic physics. When water...
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy encountered only small patches of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea during the final days...
The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on February 25, according to data...
NASA image acquired August 17, 2010 In mid-August 2010, the Northwest Passage was almost—but not quite—free of ice....
On February 4, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite...
An iceberg embedded in sea ice as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 over the Bellingshausen Sea on Oct. 19, 2012. Credit:...
On April 5, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this...
Arctic sea ice has been been the last frontier of the North for thousands of years, turning back seafarers, testing...
Arctic sea ice has been been the last frontier of the North for thousands of years, turning back seafarers, testing...
Located off the east coast of Russia, the Sea of Okhotsk stretches down to 45 degrees North latitude, and sea ice...
Mosaic image of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea created by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) instrument aboard the...