Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

An upside-down sea ice slab showcasing brine channels that facilitate the drainage of liquid brine and support convection along the interface. Polar sea ice is ever-changing. It shrinks, expands, ...

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier in the year. Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Polar sea ice has reached record, and near-record, lows for this time of year, pushing the pace of global warming and alarming scientists. The just declared 2025 Arctic sea ice extent winter maximum ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

The Barents Sea system – gateway to the changing Arctic provides an overview of the interconnected elements of the Barents Sea, from microbes living in the sediments to seabirds at its surface, from ...

University of Utah mathematics and climate researchers are building new models for understanding the dynamics of sea ice, which is not as solid as you might think. Polar sea ice is ever-changing. It ...