This is a major red flag for scientists, especially as recent satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice hit record-breaking ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

It will further warm the Arctic, leading to enhanced ice melt from places like Greenland, and thaw permafrost, destabilizing ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica ... speeding up the melting of Antarctic ice. “Faster ice melting could then lead to further weakening of the current, commencing a ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current ...

Sea ice is frozen ocean water that has an annual cycle of melting during the summer and refreezing in winter. The sea ice floats on the ocean. The region reaches its maximum extent of sea ice in ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...