The Amundsen Gulf is named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who, in the early 1900s, embarked on a voyage into the Northwest Passage, a winding narrow passage through the Canadian Arctic ...

Sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its minimum extent for 2025 on Sept. 10, covering 4.602 million square ...

NASA/Rachel Tilling Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA's Gulfstream V Research ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

A satellite hundreds of miles above Earth captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers appear to be smoking.

Satellite data reveals sea-level rise has unfolded almost exactly as predicted by 1990s climate models, with one key ...

A new NASA field campaign will begin flights over the Arctic this summer to study the effect of sea ice retreat on Arctic climate, according to a recent announcement.The Arctic Radiation IceBridge Sea ...

Antarctic ice is melting at a startling pace, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the greatest sources of uncertainty ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a press release that the average sea level rise measured in 2024 was “unexpected.” With 2024 being the warmest year on record, the change ...

On July 28, 170 researchers sent a letter to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Congress after NSF's 2026 budget ...

The AMSR2 prototype sea ice concentration data are no longer available in the data set as of 1 September 2025. SSMIS-derived sea ice concentrations will continue. NSIDC is actively working on ...