For sea ice scientists, September is the time for polar highs and lows. Around mid-month, the Antarctic winter sea ice ...

This image, taken from a data visualization, shows Arctic sea ice minimum extent on September 11, 2024. The yellow boundary shows the minimum extent averaged over the 30-year period from 1981 to 2010.

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to ...

Over the past two years, Antarctic sea ice has been “way outside anything we have witnessed in our satellite record for their winter months”, an expert tells Carbon Brief. Meanwhile, at the Earth’s ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice also triggers a whole host of other feedbacks that would amplify climate change and play havoc with weather systems around the world. Of all our geoengineering options ...

The projects total cost will be over 100 million euros. The Arctic is the region where climate change is at its fastest, with sea ice in rapid decline. There is an urgent need for new, improved ...

However, there has been some good news about sea ice this week, too. Initial trials involving pumping seawater onto snow in the Canadian Arctic have shown the potential to make the ice beneath ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

Given the grave and pervasive nature of the threat from sea level rise, it is fitting that the UN holds a high level event for leaders attending the General Assembly in September ... In the Arctic, ...