With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the world's most remarkable oceans. It's home to a multitude of unique life ...

Only the Weddell Sea remains dominated by frozen floes ... It's broadly what this year's summer ice pack is missing compared with the longer-term average. That's enough to cover the British ...

Sea ice mediates the heat exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere (Fig. 1). In the summer, this ice reflects most of the radiation from the Sun, preventing it from reaching and warming the ...

charting the fate of Arctic sea ice by going with the floe. The Norwegians have done this before, more than a century ago, when polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram were locked in pack ice ...

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents. Vanishing Antarctic ...

The record-breaking retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2023 has led to more frequent storms over newly exposed parts of the Southern Ocean, according to a study published Wednesday. Scientists know ...

With their sled in tow, a pack of dogs trudge towards a distant ... causing about half of its ice sheet surface to experience melting. And the sea ice around the territory is, of course, also ...