A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

The rapidly shrinking sea ice pack in Antarctic waters will likely recover if prompt action is taken to contain greenhouse ...

From late fall until spring, mothers with new cubs den in snowdrifts on land or on pack ice. They emerge from their dens, with the new cubs, in the spring to hunt seals from floating sea ice.

charting the fate of Arctic sea ice by going with the floe. The Norwegians have done this before, more than a century ago, when polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram were locked in pack ice ...

While sea or pack ice travels with the wind, icebergs, which hold 90 per cent of their mass below the surface, move with the current. At 8.30am on Christmas morning the captain sent a distress ...

Overall, sea ice concentrations in Antarctica remain "generally low over large areas of the pack", it added. "This, combined with indications of a warm spring with high surface melting on the ...

He is a native English speaker. An increase in large fires in the Western U.S. is being fueled by declines in Arctic Sea ice, and the impact of this decline on fires along the West Coast is as big ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...