Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2013
Animated visualization of the startling decline of Arctic Sea Ice, showing the minimum volume reached every September since 1979.
Animated visualization of the startling decline of Arctic Sea Ice, showing the minimum volume reached every September since 1979.
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have constructed a 60-year record of Arctic sea ice thickness.
Throughout the past three months, daily averages for the Arctic have ranged, overall, between 3 and 7 degrees Celsius hotter than normal.
Another "warm" and slow freeze season in the #Arctic. Sea ice extent is the 2nd lowest on record.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, affecting people in the region, fish and wildlife they depend on for food, and their environment.
The Arctic is on the front lines of global climate change, warming more than twice as fast as lower latitudes.
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UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.
Rising temperatures and declining sea ice are driving a “rapid climate shift” in the Arctic’s Barents Sea, a new study says.