On September 11, Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles). The 2024 minimum is the seventh lowest in the nearly 46-year ...

September is the time for polar highs and lows. Around mid-month, the Antarctic winter sea ice approaches its highest extent, while the Arctic summer thaw melts the region’s sea ice to its ...

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

This NASA Blue Marble image shows Arctic sea ice on September 11, 2024, when sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year. Sea ice extent for September 11 averaged 4.28 million square kilometers (1 ...

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 ...

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.

Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles) on September 11, 2024, according to scientists at the National Snow ...

In the Antarctic, sea ice typically covers the largest expanse of ocean at some point in September. After that, it begins a slow melt over the southern hemisphere’s summer, with the most open water ...

During the summer, when this photo was taken, Arctic sea ice begins to melt and break apart into thousands of smaller fragments that eventually break away and melt completely. In this case ...