Weather and Climate News

The World’s Ice Is Disappearing. This Winter Was a Prime Example

Last month, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles had reached a new low. In the Antarctic, where the summer season just wrapped up, rapid ice melt led to the lowest sea ice minimum ever recorded for the area. At the same time, on the other side of the world, the Arctic Ocean was

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The Shum Show: Too Much Rain, Too Little Ice

This week on the Shum Show, Climate Central's Greta Shum looks at Peru's heavy downpours. Over the past month, Peru has received the equivalent of six years worth of rain, causing damages and deaths. Meanwhile, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice had record lows this year. See the long-term trend in sea ice on WXshift's Arctic sea ice climate indicator

Arctic Sea Ice Continues Its Astonishing Streak of Lows

Here’s your monthly reminder: something just isn’t right in the Arctic. February continued the string of record or near-record monthly sea ice lows. Warm weather ensured Arctic sea ice hit its lowest extent ever recorded for February. At 455,600 square miles below average, the Arctic was missing a chunk of sea ice four times the size of Italy

Sea Ice Hits Record Lows at Both Poles

Arctic temperatures have finally started to cool off after yet another winter heat wave stunted sea ice growth over the weekend. The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row. Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice set an all-time

2016 ‘Arctic Report Card’ Gives Grim Evaluation

It’s been a crazy year in the Arctic, even for a region that has seen profound changes over the past few decades, changes that have been driven largely by manmade climate change. Sea ice has thinned and shrunk and the Greenland ice sheet has lost ice, fueling Arctic warming to reinforce itself, which has sent temperatures there rising twice as fast

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The Shum Show: Anomalies for Days

This week the Shum Show takes a look at global temperature anomalies. NASA released its analysis of August, so it's hot, hot, hot off the press. And up at the North Pole, sea ice is making a comeback! Tune in to the Shum Show for your weather and climate update with Climate Central's Research Analyst/Multimedia Journalist, Greta Shum.

These Images Show Near-Record Low 2016 Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic sea ice is one of the grandaddy’s of climate indicators. And this grandaddy isn’t doing so good these days. Ice is disappearing at a quickening clip as rapidly warming air and water eats away at the briny, frozen mantle on the top of the planet. In the nearly four decades of satellite monitoring, sea ice has disappeared at a clip of 13.4

2016’s Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season in 9 Seconds

Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is going to hit its annual minimum any day now, and it’s likely to be declared the second smallest summer minimum on record. Arctic sea ice melts during the spring and summer and refreezes in the fall and winter, creating natural patterns in sea ice extent that reach a minimum every September and a maximum in February or

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum is Coming Later

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Below Average Since 2002

This Is What the Ice-Free Northwest Passage Looks Like

An ice-free Northwest Passage was once the stuff of legend. But it’s now becoming the norm thanks to global warming, and commercial freighters to luxury cruise ships are racing to turn a profit off the newest frontier on earth. A satellite image taken on Aug. 9 and published by NASA Earth Observatory shows a nearly ice-free path from the North

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The Shum Show: Bubble Baths

Solutions are bubbling up! Coral bleaching and ice sheet melting are bringing the heat, but at least we’ve got one idea to combat ocean acidification! Find out more on the Shum Show with Climate Central’s Multimedia Journalism Fellow, Greta Shum.