President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...

The following is the June 30, 2025, Congressional Research Service Report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (PSC) and Arctic ...

Each year, polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay face a race against the seasons. As summer rolls in and sea ice melts, their ...

A polar bear cools down on a pile of ice that was brought to its enclosure on a hot and sunny day at the Prague zoo, Czech Republic, Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

Trump to visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center this week The US president is expected to attend Tuesday's opening of a temporary migrant detention center in southern Florida. Reuters, ...

Thin, broad sheets of ice expand from the ice cap’s edges in winter, when it’s dark and cold, and melt away in summer, when the sun shines 24 hours a day. The ice acts like a giant mirror ...

The year 2024 was the hottest year on record. Many polar factors indicate this heating: glacier retreat, polar sea surface temperature rises, and the extent of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice cover.

Luhn: Even if we stop emitting CO 2 tomorrow, some research suggests it may be too late to save summertime sea ice. That’s why Real Ice says that at the very least we need to see if sea-ice thickening ...

If it works, polar geoengineering like sea-ice thickening could affect the entire Earth. Arctic sea ice is like a big mirror, reflecting up to 90 percent of the sun’s radiation back into space ...

The all time record Antarctic summer low was 1.79 million km² (691,000 million mi²) reached on February 21, 2023. Polar ice satellite records have been continuous since 1979.

The meme claims that polar ice volume has increased beyond its 1979 volume. NASA does not include comprehensive polar ice volume data on the Vital Signs of the Planet website.

Polar ice is like an invisible hand that has sculpted our world and will shape our future. For millennia, our species has lived with land, coastlines, oceanic islands and sea levels defined by the ...