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

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

Much of the ice in the Arctic winter is known as multiyear ice because it can be built up over periods as long as a decade.

Just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed as of March 22, the smallest maximum extent since satellite records began in ...

Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals.

As the weather begins to warm up, ski season is starting to wind down. As you may want to get on the slopes one last time ...

A winter storm watch has been issued for all of the Upper Peninsula and a few northern Lower Michigan counties. A heavy ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

The U.S. military unearthed data about rising sea levels in the early 1950s — and has been closely watching this threat to ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research ...