Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, but not enough to offset an even greater acceleration caused by changes in ...

Melting polar ice is delaying the leap second by three years, pushing it from 2026 to 2029, the report found. “Part of figuring out what is going to happen in global timekeeping ...

Arctic faces a new threat. Soot from Canada's massive wildfires darkens ice and snow. This speeds up melting. The albedo ...

Melting sea ice in the Arctic is opening up lanes in the ocean for the global trade route -- lanes that were previously blocked. In the near future, the melting will have a big impacts on major ...

The seven worst years for polar ice sheets melting and losing ice have occurred during the past decade, according to new research, with 2019 being the worst year on record. The seven worst years ...

Since 1979, Arctic sea ice in September has been declining at a rate of about 13% per decade, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The melting ice correlates to the planet's rising ...

MAKE NO mistake, Arctic Sea ice is melting. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the maximum extent of the winter sea ice cover ...

Above the Arctic Circle, the community in Kotzebue, Alaska, is watching sea ice disappear as the climate gets hotter. In the Western U.S., firefighters are battling increasingly explosive ...

How ARCSIX worked. The ARCSIX plane flew in the summer of 2024, from May until Ag. 16, when seasonal sea ice melt was at its height. The team expected to find ice with a thickness of about 11.5 ...

Polar Bears Film Their Own Sea Ice World by USGS on YouTube. This time, the video cameras worked. When we recovered them, we had collected eight to 11 days of footage showing polar bears' behavior ...

Melting polar ice is delaying the leap second by three years, pushing it from 2026 to 2029, the report found. “Part of figuring out what is going to happen in global timekeeping ...