Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

"Fast ice," also known as land-fast ice, is sea ice that remains attached ... of fast ice thickness in McMurdo Sound, which is located off the coast of Antarctica. The records span from 1986 ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...

The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that ...

PARIS-Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation that Earth’s frozen continent could be undergoing a permanent ...

Trapped by the relentless ice, Shackleton’s crew faced extraordinary ... where large icebergs try to escape the Weddell Sea through Antarctic Sound, often making navigation difficult.

Though the sea ice pack around the South Pole had steadily expanded up until 2015, its area suddenly plummeted in 2016. The scale of the Antarctic sea ice reached a record low in 2023.

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the extent was larger in 2024 ...

By the end of 2024, Antarctic sea ice extent had recovered to 7.3 million square kilometers (2.8 million square miles)—very close to the 1981 to 2010 average, NSIDC said.