16 June 2022
A group of several hundred polar bears in south-eastern Greenland often catch seals by waiting outside their prey's breathing holes on blocks of floating freshwater ice from glaciers, in an example of the animals adapting to a loss of sea ice driven...
31 March 2022
The RRS Sir David Attenborough has completed ice trials during its maiden voyage to Antarctica
3 June 2021
Some regions of Arctic sea ice are thinning up to twice as fast as previously thought, researchers conclude after getting a better handle on the thickness of snow on the ice
11 November 2020
Rivers of warm air transported across the atmosphere have been found to play a major role in the appearance of vast areas of open water in Antarctic sea ice
27 October 2020
Arctic sea ice vanishing in summers by 2050 could trigger 0.19°C of extra global warming – almost enough to wipe out any savings from China going carbon neutral
2 September 2020
A study of winter sea ice in the Bering Sea over the past 5500 year suggests that all the ice will be lost within decades, with knock-on effects for the Arctic
20 July 2020
Unchecked climate change will doom all but one of the world’s populations of polar bears before the end of the century, as vanishing sea ice increases their annual fasts beyond their limits
6 July 2020
The biggest ever science expedition to the Arctic found sea ice that was so unusually thin that it could threaten future efforts to study the effects of climate change in the region
