Years later, NASA detected the project's buried base, called Camp Century, deep beneath the accumulating ice. A space agency research plane swooped over the remote Arctic region this year ...

Perennial Arctic ice, ice that survives the summer melt, has been drastic reducing in size. This map from NASA shows just how much it has changed over more than two decades. Video courtesy of NASA.

measure the depth-to-permafrost, and to make electronic measurements of soil moisture for NASA's ABoVE campaign.

Once a vital carbon sink, the Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) is now releasing more CO₂ than it captures. Large swathes of tundra, forests, and wetlands are shifting from absorbers to emitters ...

Globally ice cover set a record low in mid-February Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it’s ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, according to NASA and the National Snow ...