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Melting ice opens new predation ground for killer whales as they spend more time in previously neglected territory. Killer whales are intelligent, adaptive predators, often…
Two layers of ice in deep snow following the rain-on-snow events of November 2006. Credit: Photo courtesy of Florian Stammler Changes will happen decades earlier…
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram…
Geoscientist Georgia Hole used tree rings to retrace the paths of driftwood, once frozen in sea ice, as it made its way through the Arctic.…
A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees.…
Eroding cliff bluffs adjacent to Elson Lagoon near Utqiagvik, Alaska. Credit: Michael Rawlins New research from UMass Amherst shines light on poorly understood processes of…
[embedded content]Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent on September 16, 2021, at 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). Credit: NASAEstablished in 1958,…
September 16, 2021 Sea ice covered more area this summer compared to recent years, but it was also much thinner. Sea ice in the Arctic…
A still image visualizing Arctic sea ice on September 16, 2021, when the ice appeared to reach its yearly minimum extent. On this date, the…
August 22, 2021 The decline of sea ice in the Arctic has made the passage increasingly viable for ships, but it’s still not always smooth…
Aerial view of Severnaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic. Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to…
This photo of sea ice on the Wandel Sea north of Greenland was taken August 16, 2020, from the German icebreaker Polarstern, which passed through…
This is an artistic depiction of the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus with its young. Credit: James Havens In the 1950s, researchers made the first unexpected discoveries of…
Illustration showing a pair of adult tyrannosaurs and their young living in the Arctic during the Cretaceous Period. Credit: James Havens Images of dinosaurs as…
The research vessel Polarstern drifting in Arctic sea ice. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning up to…
The relationships among CAW, heatwaves, wildfires, and pollution. Anomalous anticyclones characterize the atmospheric circulation that develops concomitantly over the three remote regions around the summertime…
SODA researchers gather on deck of R/V Sikuliaq. Credit: Jim Thomson A team led by physical oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University…
September 2020 – March 2021 There were no records set in 2020-21, but the downward trends in polar ice continue. The amount of sea ice…
University of California, Irvine-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle. In 2019, the National Weather…