Arctic News

Record High Temperatures in 2014 The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880, wri...

August 2014 record high land and ocean temperature The combined average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 ...

The Arctic Ocean is turning red, as sea surface temperatures (SST) rise. The NOAA maps below, dated August 12, 2013, show sea surface temper...

The image below, produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, shows methane levels for the first ten days of March 2013. Methane levels for this pe...

In contrast to multi-year old ice, first-year old ice—ice that formed only since the last melt season—is thinner, saltier, and much more pro...

Northern Hemisphere snow and ice map , October 14, 2012 (credit: NSIDC, NOAA) Snow covers more than 33% of lands north of the equator fr...

Arctic summer wind shift could affect sea ice loss and U.S./European weather Changes in summer Arctic wind patterns contribute not only...

This  NASA satellite image shows how the Arctic sea ice extent, on Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past ...