Arctic Sea Ice Steep Decline Continues

Steep decline of the Arctic sea ice continues. The yellow line on the image below follows 2014 sea ice area up to June 5 and shows that sea ...

Arctic sea ice in steep decline

Arctic sea ice area is in steep decline. The yellow line on the image below shows the sea ice area for 2014 up to June 1st, showing an almos...

Arctic Sea Ice in Steep Descent

Arctic sea ice area is in steep descent, as illustrated by the image below. Sea ice area was only smaller at this time of the year in 2007, ...

Has the descent begun?

On March 9, 2014, Arctic sea ice area was at a record low for the time of the year, at only 12.88731 square kilometers. Sea ice extent shows...

M4.5 Earthquake hits Gakkel Ridge

The above image shows recent large methane release over the Gakkel Ridge, the faultline that crosses the Arctic Ocean between the northern t...

Cyclone raging on Thin Ice

Another cyclone is raging over the Arctic Ocean. The Naval Research Laboratory image below shows the speed and drift of the sea ice. [ clic...

Arctic Sea Ice September 2013 Projections

What will the Arctic Sea Ice look like in September 2013? Several projections for Arctic sea ice extent are being discussed at places such a...

Arctic sea ice decline continues

The image below, from The Cryosphere Today , shows that Arctic sea ice has shrunk in area by 11.446871 million square km from March 28, 2012...

Two important images

As Arctic sea ice continues to decline, breaking one record after the other, one wonders what more can be said to capture the significance o...

Sea ice area falls below 2.5 million square km

Arctic sea ice area has fallen below 2.5 million square km.  Sea ice area was 2.48831 million square km on the 242nd day of 2012, as shown o...

Arctic sea ice area already shrank by over 81 percent this year

Arctic sea ice area already shrank by over 81% this year. Arctic sea ice area was 13.70851 million square km on the 88th day of 2012, as ill...