A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 ...

Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent ...

A breakthrough study has uncovered that the Southern Ocean's power to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere fluctuates dramatically depending on winter sea ice. When sea ice lingers longer into ...

A Japanese company has launched a rocket designed to monitor sea temperature and greenhouse gases as part of its overall ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...

Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project.

Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ever before, a vast new paper ...

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will ...