Actually it’s a jostling mass of ice floes that, propelled by winds and currents, drift from one side of the Arctic to the other in journeys lasting years. “People don’t understand the ...

Scientists say that this decline has an impact on fire weather by influencing air temperature and precipitation rates globally.

Each decade around 13% of the ice ... Arctic with a thin layer of glass beads" which could "boost surface reflectivity and create more ice" and start a "cooling feedback loop", said The Guardian ...

The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land, unlike the Antarctic at the other end of the world ... At the height of winter, the ice forms to cover 14 million square kilometres of ocean.

Science Desk, Dec 3 (EFE).- An ice-free Arctic could be a reality by 2027, according to new research that warns of accelerating ice melt in the northernmost ocean. The study, published in the ...