Author: Maria-Jose Vinas, NASA Earth Science News Team

  • Arctic sea ice melting one warm river at a time

    A new NASA study finds that warmer than normal waters from rivers draining into the Arctic Ocean each summer are eating away at the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Led by Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the research team used satellite data to measure the surface temperature of the…