For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

The major focus was on what are known as marginal ice zones in the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait, which is the transition zone between the open, ice-free ocean and the pack ice of the central arctic.

Like a wild bronco, those waves bucked sea ice at the edge of an icy pack 6 feet (2 m) up and down, while even larger waves swept 60 miles (100 km) toward the center of the pack.

New research reveals Antarctic sea ice has hit record lows three times since 2017, creating cascading effects on global ...

Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

Arctic sea ice patterns recorded by an Alaska scientist made it to the catwalk earlier this month in New York, ... into the Arctic pack ice for a full year starting in 2019.

For decades, scientists have tried to pinpoint when the total extent of Arctic sea ice will drop below 1 million square kilometers (or about 386,000 square miles) — the marker denoting a "sea ...

Thin ice can be seen between Kotzebue and Deering on Dec 17. (Desiree Hagen, KOTZ) In late March, when sea ice extension in the Arctic should be at its highest, scientists studied satellites ...

Like a wild bronco, those waves bucked sea ice at the edge of an icy pack 6 feet (2 m) up and down, while even larger waves swept 60 miles (100 km) toward the center of the pack.