New evidence deep beneath the Arctic ice suggests that a series of underwater volcanoes have erupted in violent explosions in the past decade.
Several snowmobiles navigated speedily over arctic ice and snow in Alaska's outback in late June ... what we know about how changes in climate affect ice sheets and glaciers using robots to trek landscapes ...
NASA animations show dramatic Arctic ice melt again in 2008, which saw the second smallest Arctic sea ice cover on record, scientists announced this week.
... its end and the minimum extent of sea ice is reached. The Arctic ice cover amounted to 4.5 ... square kilometres on 12th September. This is slightly more than the lowest ice cover ever measured: 4.1 ...
The Arctic ice-cap could vanish in summertime far sooner than previously predicted, a leading scientist says.
DURHAM, N.H., May 28 (UPI) -- Researchers from the United States and around the world have determined springtime agricultural fires have a significant impact on the melting of arctic ice.
... said the rapid
loss was "remarkable" and said it could force experts to reassess
how quickly the Arctic ice in the summer may disappear completely.
They have called for more research to pin down the ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Arctic ice pack melted this summer to its third-smallest size on record, up slightly from the low points of the past two years but ...
The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.
... Gakkel extends some 1,800 kilometers beneath the Arctic ice between Greenland and Siberia. Heavy ... prevented scientists from getting at it until the 2001 Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Expedition, in which U. ...
... percent chance the annual minimum sea ice record will be broken this fall for the third time ... size of Texas and California combined.
"The current Arctic ice cover is thinner and younger than at any ...
... McLaren and the crew of the USS Queenfish took their submarine in 1970 beneath the perennial sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean to explore and map the Siberian Continental Shelf for ...
Experts foresee another dramatic retreat of North Pole sea ice.
WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they've discovered signs of volcanic activity under Arctic Ocean ice, defying assumptions about sea floor pressure and volcanoes.
... 2005 – the year with the second lowest sea ice extent ever measured. Chances of an equally ... methods and climate models. "After the strong decrease of the Arctic ice during the last summer, climate ...
