Kay Ohshima, a Hokkaido University professor of physical oceanography, analyzed with his colleagues how climate change has affected drift ice in the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk ...

Arctic sea ice extent in March averaged 14.14 million square kilometres, the lowest in the 47-year satellite record and ...

The bright white surface of sea ice plays an important role in slowing warming as it reflects sunlight back into space, in what is known as the albedo effect. Conversely, its melting creates a ...

Last month was the second warmest March on record and it was also the 20th time in the last 21 months that the average global ...

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

March this year was the second-warmest ever globally, after March 2024, and marked the 20th month of the last 21 that saw ...

The fish, which are born in Japan, migrate through the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea and ... The researchers said climate change has raised temperatures of coastal waters in high-latitude ...

In the Arctic region, sea ice concentrations were below average in most ocean sectors outside the central Arctic Ocean, particularly in the Barents Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Antarctic sea ice ...