Map showing main regions of the Arctic. Credit: Carbon Brief Arctic ... As winds pushed the ice northwards, “ocean wave action” melted the thin ice at the edge of the ice sheet, he says. February was ...

The new maps ... ocean. It floats on the surface of the sea because it is less dense than liquid water - much like ice cubes in your glass of water. In contrast, icebergs, glaciers, ice sheets ...

The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter of 2025 to ... and the smallest on record based on data available from 1979. A map provided by the report showed that the sea ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Combined Arctic and Antarctic sea ice cover—frozen ocean water that floats on the surface—plunged to a record low in mid-February, more than a million square miles below the pre-2010 average.

Due to warmer temperatures in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre is currently losing large amounts of sea ice. The ice helps keeping the ocean cool, acting as a lid. Thinner sea ice allows more heat ...

Loss of the Antarctic ice sheet ... ocean circulation is the spatial distribution of sea-surface height as determined by Earth-observing satellites. Normally, sea ice in the Antarctic and Arctic ...