This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

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 ...

Since 1979, when satellite records began, Arctic temperatures have risen nearly four times faster than the global average.

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

Sea ice in the Arctic was at a record low this winter, according to research released earlier this month from the University ...

“But even more importantly than the record low is that this year adds yet another data point to the continuing long-term loss of Arctic sea ice in all seasons.” Sea ice is frozen ocean water ...

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

The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter of 2025 to ... A map provided by the report showed that the sea ice extent in 2017 was significantly lower than 2012 levels and ...