Arctic News

Ocean heat is at record levels. As a result, global sea ice extent was only 16.23 million km² on February 9, 2022, the third lowest extent...

0-2000 m Global Ocean Heat Content Ocean heat content is rising, as illustrated by the image on the right. Where the sea ice declines, t...

Of all the excess heat that results from people's emissions, 93.4% goes into oceans . Accordingly, ocean heat has strongly increased ove...

Huge amounts of carbon are contained in sediments, soils and vegetation in the Arctic. Rising temperatures in the Arctic threaten to cause...

A heatwave with temperature anomalies exceeding 36°F (20°C) is expected to hit Greenland between August 16 and 22, 2014, as illustrated by t...

As the weather gets more extreme, disaster strikes around the globe. The Guardian reports three people killed as storms continue to batter s...

  Editorial note: this post has meanwhile been updated as Extreme weather strikes around the globe update . As the weather gets ...

Surface Temperature Rise How much have temperatures risen over the past 100 years or so? In the image below, Peter Carter points at the ae...

Fossil fuel combustion creates carbon emissions that increase atmospheric thickness, warming climate. The occurrence of wildfire increases w...