U.S. and German researchers calculate individual contribution to climate change
This photo is a mosaic image of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, created by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) instrument aboard the NASA...
Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thoughtMore rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than...
IceTrek project summary
In March 2006, a US-Argentine team landed on two icebergs that had broken off from a massive glacier-fed ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula....
What we can learn from a half century of sea ice data
By Audrey PayneOn December 10, 1972, the world of sea ice data changed forever. For the first time in history, as the Electrically Scanning...
Arctic sea ice settles at 2nd lowest minimum and 5th lowest September
Arctic sea ice extent for September 2016 was 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). The magenta line shows the 1981 to 2010...
Arctic sea ice has reached minimum extent for 2022
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year at 4.67 million square kilometers (1.80 million square miles) on September 18,...
Sea ice hits record lows
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. NSIDC scientists...
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