Ice & Glaciers
A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice…
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for…
Linette Boisvert turned a childhood love of snow into a career as a sea ice scientist studying climate change. Name: Linette…
When it is solicited, A.30 Understanding Changes in High Mountain Asia (HMA) solicits investigations into HMA’s glaciers, snow, permafrost, and…
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling…
NASA’s Terra satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast on…
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the…
Editor’s note, April 16, 2024: An earlier version of this article included a rounded figure for the Arctic Ocean’s sea…
On February 20th, 2024, Antarctic sea ice officially reached its minimum extent for the year.
