On average, Arctic sea ice melt ponds are only around 9 inches ... He covers a wide range of topics including space exploration, planetary science, space weather, climate change, animal behavior ...

During the summer, when this photo was taken, Arctic sea ice begins to melt ... See all the best images of Earth from space Some of the larger fragments of ice in the photo are peppered with ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025 ... an ice scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It doesn’t bode well for the future.” ...

The initial results and observations from preliminary field experiments are inconclusive but encouraging. For example, the ice formed by pumping sea water onto sea ice appears to become less salty ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between ...

plants and the roughly 4 million people who live in the Arctic — it has global consequences. Sea ice acts like a giant mirror, reflecting the sunlight away from the Earth and back into space.

when the sun’s radiation shines down on the Arctic for 24 hours a day, the ice acts as a shield, reflecting more than half of the light that hits it back into space. “We need the sea ice to ...

The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address ...

Artificial intelligence sea ice forecasting systems could help predict and protect the migration routes of endangered caribou ...