When highly reflective snow and ice give way to dark blue ocean, the same amount of the sun's energy that was bounced back into space is absorbed by water instead, accelerating the pace of global ...

“As the sea ice melts, more solar radiation is absorbed by the ocean, because you don’t have this protective cover of the sea ice,” he said. Last month’s record low for the global sea ice ...

Pure ice is blue because ice absorbs more red light than ... But iron is scarce in many areas of the ocean. If experiments prove the new theory right, it would mean green icebergs are ferrying ...

They are some of the most productive in the world, and support huge numbers of species and individual animals, and feed the biggest animals in the world like the blue whale,” says professor Huw ...

Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as ...