The Arctic ice cap is composed mainly of sea ice, and not ice on land. Sea ice fluctuates with the seasons, expanding in the fall and winter and shrinking in the spring and summer. In September of ...

By Liz Kimbrough The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

With the hottest year in history just behind us, it is perhaps not surprising that the world's sea ice is in dire condition. Arctic sea ice has now dipped to its second lowest extent for January ...