Despite global cuts to mercury emissions, Arctic wildlife are accumulating toxic levels as century-old pollution rides ocean ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published ...

Satellites can now measure the thickness of sea-ice covering the Arctic Ocean all year round ... To measure thickness, scientists use satellite altimeters. The European Space Agency's (Esa ...

"This is a multidisciplinary view on what's going on in the Arctic and beyond," Polyakov said of the new research. "Our analysis covered the atmosphere, ocean, ice, changing continents and ...

The Arctic Ocean could see "ice-free" days within a ... ice-free conditions "will show up in the daily satellite data." In their study, the team turned to both past studies and computer climate ...

referring to the research team’s models based on 20 years of satellite data from the Arctic Ocean. This surprising result is seemingly due to water transparency, which has decreased in many ...

T he winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite ...

The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than anywhere else on Earth. In some areas of the Arctic Ocean, the warming ... trends between 1979, when satellite data became available, and ...

"At the start of the satellite record (in the late 1970s), much of the ice covering the Arctic Ocean was greater than four years old. Today, most of the ice covering the Arctic Ocean is 'first ...

A flip-flopping, yearslong pattern of winds helps control the fate of the Arctic’s sea ice — by regulating how much of the Atlantic Ocean’s ... gathered from satellite, airplane and ...

and evaluate how this new concept of the Arctic Ocean helps in closing further gaps in our knowledge, in particular in view of the risks of manmade climate change,” said Dr Geibert. The research ...