While most projections of the Arctic’s sea ice have focused on month-by-month conditions, a new study has revealed possible predictions down to the day. Previous expectations had the Arctic Sea ...

Nearly all of the Arctic’s sea ice could melt by the summer of 2027 ... Nature Communications finds the Arctic will be “ice-free” when it has less than 1 million square kilometers of ...

an ice-free summer for the Arctic Ocean. Each year, Arctic sea ice expands as the sea surface freezes during the long, dark winter. At its maximum in March, the ice covers nearly the entire Arctic ...

Jahn’s prior research suggested that the first ice-free month would occur almost inevitably and might happen by the 2030s. As the tipping point approaches, Jahn wondered when the first summer day that ...

If the Arctic region experiences such a cascade of events for three years or more, that first ice-free day could occur in late summer, according to the study. The knock-on effects could be ...

that could lead to an ice-free day late in the summer. "When we reach ice-free conditions then the majority of the Arctic Ocean, 94 percent of it, will have no ice anymore," Jahn tells the ...

It will also have direct and devastating consequences. The authors report that an ice-free Arctic in the summer could “enhance the warming of the Upper Ocean,” which would have the unfortunate ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

Previous expectations had the Arctic Sea loss predicted around 2030, but these results reveal that an ice-free day could occur as early as late summer 2027. Nine other simulations, while less ...

When the ice is thin, more storms form in the spring and summer that can break ... “When we reach ice-free conditions then the majority of the Arctic Ocean, 94 percent of it, will have no ...

Previous expectations had the Arctic Sea loss predicted around 2030, but these results reveal that an ice-free day could occur as early as late summer 2027. Nine other simulations, while less likely, ...