Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 23:29
Arctic sea ice last month was around 50 per cent higher in volume compared with a year earlier, following a recovery in area this summer, the European Space Agency (ESA) said today.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 11:22
For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is set to fly aboard NASA`s new C-130 aircraft to map Greenland`s ice sheet and surrounding Arctic sea ice following a summer`s melt.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 08:42
The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth lowest level, but that is much higher than last year`s record low.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 14:10
Despite warmer air and oceans, there`s more sea ice in Antarctica now than in the 1970s, a new study suggests.
Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 18:47
With sea ice at its lowest point in 1,500 years, ecological communities in the Arctic are being affected by its continued and even accelerated melting over the next decades, a new study has revealed.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 09:47
Global temperatures last month tied with 1998 and 2005 as the third warmest for a month of May since record-keeping began in 1880, US scientists said today.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 16:06
Reductions in Arctic sea ice levels may influence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within and beyond the Arctic.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 15:25
After a record melt season last year, the Arctic Ocean`s icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the average summertime extent from 1979 to 2000.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 16:33
Global warming will make frigid shipping routes much more accessible than ever imagined by melting an unprecedented amount of sea ice during the late summer, a new research has revealed.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 19:47
The Arctic has lost more than a third of summer sea-ice volume since a decade ago, and is only a fifth of what it was in 1980, according to satellite observations.
Last Updated: Monday, February 4, 2013, 15:25
A new study has delinked an unusually large summer cyclone originating in Siberia from last year`s record low for Arctic sea ice.
Last Updated: Monday, November 26, 2012, 13:44
Researchers tracking the behaviour of emperor penguins have found fresh reason to be worried about global warming -- emperor penguins use sea ice to rest as they forage.
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