#Sea ice

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Peggy’s data were a bit of a shock. From an anchored vantage point in an expanse of the southeastern Bering Sea west of Alaska, Peggy, or mooring M2, had monitored conditions in the water for 25 years. A line of sensors extended down more than 70

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News for Students Peggy’s data were a bit of a shock. Peggy is a floating buoy attached to sensors that monitor the temperature, saltiness and other properties of the Arctic’s Bering Sea. These sensors reach down more than 70 meters (about 230 feet)

Source: PhysOrg.com Sea ice cover in Antarctica shrank rapidly to a record low in late 2016 and has remained well below average. But what’s behind this dramatic melting and low ice cover since? Our two articles published earlier this month suggest that a combination of natural variability in the

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News Female polar bears prowling springtime sea ice have extreme weight swings, some losing more than 10 percent of their body mass in just over a week. And the beginnings of bear video blogging help explain why. An ambitious study of polar bears (Ursus

According to data from The Danish Meteorological Institute, since hitting its earliest minimum extent since 1997, Arctic sea ice has been expanding at a phenomenal rate. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php As notalotofpeopleknowthat blog details, it is already greater than at the same