“At 5.53 million square miles (14.33 million square kilometers ... Two Major Problems The effects of the ice issue are twofold. The first is that sea levels rise as the ice melts at the ...

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...

But just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed ... which has historically been more isolated from the effects of human-caused warming, sea ice shrank this month to the second-lowest extent ...

At 14.45 million square kilometers ... This will have reduced ice growth in some regions, with this effect evident in modeling and satellite data." However, the low sea-ice extent in March ...

Since the time in which ice freezes over completely is unpredictable, the existing food chain is altered. Zach Feiner, a scientist at CFL, studies the effects of ice freezing over on ecosystems. “This ...

The 30th annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival opened yesterday in China 's northern city of Harbin. Nearly 10,000 workers built palatial structures out of some 180,000 square meters of ice and ...