Maksagak has been instrumental in helping Real Ice to consult with the local community about their research, and she is ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025, marking the lowest extent in the 47-year satellite record. The shrinking sea ice, attributed to rising global temperatures from burning fossil ...

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached. Slowly through spring, then accelerating through summer, most of that ice ...

Meier said sea ice extent is shrinking all four seasons, but the most important season for the overall health of the Arctic ice is the summer. That's because ice-free waters warm up quicker ...

The Arctic’s winter ice extent reached its lowest recorded level in March since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 21, 2025, the sea ice cover measured 14.45 million square kilometres ...

In the Arctic, this year’s maximum ice extent was 31,000 square miles smaller than the previous record, Perovich said – representing enough lost ice to cover the entire state of South Carolina.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean reached its largest ever annual extent on March 22, 2025. The extent was also the smallest in the ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

However, it is unclear what the consequences will be when the ocean currents ... within the Arctic and as far away as the North Atlantic. Due to warmer temperatures in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre is ...

"This record low is yet another indicator of how Arctic sea ice has fundamentally changed from earlier decades," said snow and ice data center scientist Walt Meier. He said sea ice extent is ...