As a result, the northern polar seasonal cap contains a higher concentration of dust than the south polar cap, making the ice less robust. "They're not symmetric seasons," Hansen said.

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...

In a 2023 study, researchers found that the Arctic Ocean's ice cap would likely disappear in summer as soon as the 2030s and a decade earlier than thought, no matter how aggressively humanity ...