Arctic sea ice at maximum extent for 2021
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.77 million square kilometers (5.70 million square miles) on March 21,...
There and back again: the IceFlow data tool
Mt. Balfour lies on the western side of the Antarctica Peninsula. The...
NSF renews funding for 15-year NSIDC program to support Arctic community-led research and Indigenous...
Since 2006, the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) program at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has...
NSIDC hosts first-of-its-kind mapping tool to make Greenland exploration accessible to all
QGreenland, an open-source mapping tool that aids in the discovery and teaching about Greenland, is now available from the National Snow and Ice Data...
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