It's not a great year for polar sea ice. Both the Arctic and Antarctic have seen record lows in sea ice extent, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which use ...

There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you'd ...

A key indicator of Antarctic sea ice levels has hit a record low, according to preliminary research. Antarctica’s peak sea ice level this year, 6.55 million square miles, was the lowest in the ...

Antarctic sea ice continues to reach dire new lows. As the BBC reports, new satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center reveals that sea ice levels at our planet's South Pole ...

A new scientific report has shown that the icy mass in Antarctica has shrunk below 1.4 million square kilometers for the first time since measurements began being recorded in 1978. Since the late ...

Preliminary measurements show the sea ice around the continent has surpassed the previous record minimum set, in March 2017, of 2.1 million square kilometers, dropping to 1.98 million square ...

As countries meet in Dubai to negotiate emissions reductions, the world is heating up faster than ever. Without further cuts, ...

With a month to run, 2023 will reach global warming of about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, ...

AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues — because we love the planet and we believe ...