In 2015, glaciers across the globe, on average, continued to shrink for the 36th consecutive year.
The author of the glacier chapter of the 2015 State of the Climate report and his daughter talk about how family connections brought them together scientifically, and how science keeps bringing their family together.
Greenland melt season off to very early start
April 28, 2016
National Snow and Ice Data Center Director Mark Serreze studied every nook and cranny of two Ellesmere Island ice caps in the early 1980s. Now those ice caps are nearly gone.
The 2016 winter maximum sea ice extent in the Arctic edged out 2015 to a set a new record low.
Walruses use sea ice for mating, giving birth, and resting, which means they face an increasing threat from global warming.
The melt season was up to 30 to 40 days longer than average in western, northwestern, and northeastern Greenland, but was close to or below average elsewhere on the ice sheet. Melt area was above average on 52 of the 90 days of the melt season.
Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, decreasing sea ice extent and Greenland ice sheet mass, and changing behavior of fish and walrus are among key observations released today in the Arctic Report Card 2015.
On September 11, 2015, Arctic sea reached its fourth-lowest minimum extent in the satellite record:1.70 million square miles (4.41 million square kilometers).