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2024 Arctic Report Card: Ice seal populations in the Pacific Arctic remain healthy

Section: News & Features

Published: December 10, 2024

Species Act, due to concerns about Arctic sea ice declines. Authors of the 2024 update to the Arctic Report Card, however, report that all four seal species currently have large, healthy populations. ...

Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: December 2, 2024

in addition to extent. Provides a description of why understanding the two main types of Arctic ice matters: old (more than 4 years old) ice vs. new (younger than 4 years old) ice are good indicators ...

2024 Arctic Report Card: The amount of sea ice that survives Arctic summer is roughly half of what it used to be

Section: News & Features

Published: December 10, 2024

ice extents of the 46-year satellite record. (Scientists previously reported in the 2017 Arctic Report Card that reconstructions from paleoclimate data indicate today's ice extents in the Arctic are t ...

2018 Arctic Report Card: Less than 1 percent of Arctic ice has survived four or more summers

Section: News & Features

Published: December 11, 2018

percent. Adapted from the 2018 Arctic Report Card, these maps show the age of sea ice in the Arctic ice pack in March 1985 (left) and March 2018 (right). Ice that is less than a year old—meaning it fo ...

2024 Arctic Report Card documents rapid, dramatic change

Section: News & Features

Published: December 10, 2024

already absorbing record levels of heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution. The transition of the Arctic tundra from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are ...

June wind shift a little something extra behind recent Arctic ice losses

Section: News & Features

Published: October 22, 2012

June wind shift a little something extra behind recent Arctic ice losses . A graph of the long-term trend in summertime Arctic sea ice extent for the past few decades could double as a highway sign w ...

Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations for September (Minimum)

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: December 2, 2024

may need clarification and vocabulary support from educator. A time-series view of September Arctic sea ice concentration from 1979 to 2023. Visualization animates changes in Arctic sea ice at its min ...

Arctic sea ice minimum in 2024 seventh lowest on record

Section: News & Features

Published: September 26, 2024

Arctic sea ice probably reached its annual minimum extent on September 11, 2024, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). At 1.65 million square miles (4.28 million square kilometer ...

Five things to understand about an "ice-free" Arctic

Section: News & Features

Published: May 14, 2024

models predict. As scientists have tried to identify why CMIP6 models underestimate real-world Arctic sea ice losses, multiple explanations have emerged. One possibility is that models lack realistic ...

2024 Arctic Report Card: Arctic has second-warmest year on record in 2024

Section: News & Features

Published: December 10, 2024

s warmest, and has been characterized by several new annual and seasonal records." The 2024 Arctic Report Card includes a detailed report on Arctic surface air temperatures over October 2023-September ...