Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time ... to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt. “Implications are serious: the increased open water ...

Rapid midsummer melt is therefore both unremarkable and unsurprising. But it is also an unreliable indicator of just how much ...

Continuously hotter summers and less sea ice are remaking the Arctic. Some researchers wonder what opportunities might appear ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A vast reservoir of mercury, trapped in permafrost for thousands of years, is being released as the ice thaws due to ... that covers much of the Arctic, is melting at unprecedented rates.

Greenland's ice melt is accelerating due to climate change, doubling extreme melt episodes and raising sea levels.

The exceptional melting continued into August, corresponding with a persistent heat dome that baked parts of Scandinavia’s Arctic. In Longyearbyen ... including below-average sea ice cover and ...

The exceptional melting continued into August ... that the same is true of much more recent losses of Antarctic sea ice. In the Arctic, cooling decreased by 17-22 percent between the period ...

The ice sheet is melting very fast ... joining forces with a team of global scientists to study rising sea levels in the Arctic. UNH professor and director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean ...