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NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt

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What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling…

Article7 hours ago

NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes

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It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the…

Article2 months ago

Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline

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Editor’s note, April 16, 2024: An earlier version of this article included a rounded figure for the Arctic Ocean’s sea…

Article4 months ago

This US-Indian Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Changing Frozen Regions

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NISAR will study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air…

Article7 months ago

International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up

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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the latest satellite contributing to a 30-year sea level record that researchers are using to compare…

Article9 months ago
Heart-shaped ice basin on Earth and a heart-shaped plains on Pluto.

Frozen: Ice on Earth and Well Beyond

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From deep below the soil at Earth’s polar regions to Pluto’s frozen heart, ice exists all over the solar system...and…

Article2 years ago