A large block of permafrost that has broken off on the coast of Alaska. Photo: Benjamin Jones, USGS Methane escapes from upland Arctic Yedoma permafrost soils in quantities that exceed those in regions further north by far – emissions that have only recently...
Birefringence in the service of fashion. Together, a designer and an artist-director have created garments whose prints are inspired by the colours and patterns of sea ice when viewed through a microscope with a polarising filter. The result was presented at New York...
Sea ice extent in the Arctic is always lowest at the end of summer in September. The graph shows the development of the minimum expansion from 1979 to 2022. Graphics: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Without the current positive phase...