A group of school kids and college students discovered that a Russian island in the Arctic has recently vanished after comparing satellite images of the area for an educational project.
As a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the 1980s, Mark Serreze studied sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre, a current in the Arctic Ocean just north of Canada. He used a network ...
His new images capture the dramatic retreat of Arctic ice since 2002, illustrating the rapid effects of climate change. In an update to a landmark photo series published 22 years ago, renowned Swedish ...
One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show ... this more true than the icy land surrounding the Arctic Ocean, including the northern coast of Russia.