For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall, extending the melt season and ...

The Arctic sea ice melt season is roughly 40 days longer than it was in 1979, yet its rapid expansion unexpectedly leveled off around 2010. Scientists say changing clouds and increasingly thin ice may ...

Forecasters say the region’s sea ice will dwindle to a strip above Greenland and Canada. There, polar bears and others will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists continue to uncover mounting evidence that melting Arctic glaciers are changing our world forever.

For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in autumn, but this has changed recently.

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant slowdown in Arctic sea ice melting since 2012, with a decrease rate of 11.3% per ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To be prepared for any circumstance, U.S. and European military forces have been training in the Arctic. However, melting ice is ...

Although Arctic sea ice appears fated to melt away as the climate continues to warm, the ice may temporarily stabilize or somewhat expand at times over the next few decades, new research indicates.

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The dilemma of the melting Arctic sea ice, recently highlighted by a new WWF report, has hit the mainstream press, with this article in the UK's Independent newspaper saying that that “for the first ...

US government scientists reported Monday that the Arctic Ocean’s floating ice cover has shrivelled to its second lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979. Until this month, only once in the ...

A new paper suggests that the Arctic's rapidly disappearing older ice plays a larger role in Arctic ecology than previously thought. A new paper suggests that the Arctic's rapidly disappearing older ...