The non-profit Arctic Ice Project was experimenting with using silica beads to slow ice melt in the Arctic, but tests showed ...

This creates a feedback loop as the darker ocean water absorbs more heat, causing more ice to melt, adversely affecting global weather patterns. The melting of Arctic ice also directly affects ...

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can ...

Large expanses of white sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean “helped to reflect energy and heat back out to space and act as a cooler system for our planet,” Moon said. But as the ice melts ...

Despite its size, the Arctic Ocean is unique. It remains covered by sea ice for most of the year, creating a habitat for diverse creatures like polar bears and seals. Its average depth is around ...

Even minor temperature changes show drastic impacts on Earth's North and South poles and soon one of them will turn ice-free.

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

The weakening of the AMOC has paused since the early 2010s. A recent study by scientists at AOML found that the Atlantic ...

A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland Ice Sheet is ...

Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

“It all depends on if the high pressure system over the arctic air mass up over northern Canada ... but it may be over the ocean waters, or Europe, or western United States.