The claim: April and May data shows Arctic sea ice isn't declining. A Facebook post links to an article with a graph that purportedly shows Arctic sea ice extent data for mid-April through mid-May ...

The graph was originally tweeted by Zack Labe, a PhD student in UC Irvine’s department of earth system sciences, though it was created by a member of the Arctic sea ice forum. Zack also happens ...

The article includes an authentic Arctic sea ice extent graph from the agency, but that graph does not show May 2022 at a 30-year high, according to Martin Stendel, ...

Scientists believe the Arctic sea ice, or the floating ice cover of the Arctic Ocean, has reached its minimum extent for the year, shrinking to the second lowest extent since record-keeping began ...

In the Antarctic, spring melt came early making 2016 the second lowest sea ice extent for November on record. The graph showing the combined effect is so shocking that scientists on Twitter are ...

Thin ice can be seen between Kotzebue and Deering on Dec 17. (Desiree Hagen, KOTZ) In late March, when sea ice extension in the Arctic should be at its highest, scientists studied satellites ...

NASA Earth Observatory graph of this year's Arctic sea ice extent compared to average levels. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The Arctic Ocean’s coating of sea ice—now remarkably thin and sparse after a record-warm winter—could plummet by late summer to the lowest extent in 38 years of observations.

White shows ice, blue is ocean, gray is land; you can see Greenland directly below the ice, with Canada and the US to the lower left. Obviously, the sea ice extent for August 25 is way, way below ...

Sea ice in the Arctic grew to its annual maximum extent last week, and joined 2015, 2016 and 2017 as the four lowest maximum extents on record, according to scientists. Skip to main content Your ...