Just for fun, we asked the experts at the Rutgers Snow Lab to show us what their data (based on NOAA satellite images) had to say about whether the number of snow-covered days during the week of Christmas has changed at all across the U.S. in the past 50 years.
Present since the last ice age, most of the world's glaciers are now shrinking or disappearing altogether as the climate gets warmer.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Tami Phelps focuses on the changing ecosystem in Alaska.
Scientists report that ice seals have recovered from mass mortality events in the 2010s. Body condition, pregnancy rates, and pup survival all indicate populations are doing well.
Summer sea ice has been stable near these much smaller extents since around 2007.
The Arctic tundra, which has been a carbon sink for millennia, has shifted to become a carbon source.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Christian Murillo was inspired by a love for the wild, glacier landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
The lowest 18 sea ice extents on record have all occurred in the last 18 years (2007–2024).