The team of scientists from the US used satellite data, which stretches back to the early 1980s, to determine the level of the albedo effect in the Arctic. They found that sea-ice, snow on top of ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...

As this occurs, the albedo (or reflectivity) is reduced, because the dark ocean waters absorb more heat than the lighter sea-ice. This in turn causes the land and oceans to warm even more.

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice ...

When sea ice is lost and the darker ocean surface is exposed, more warmth is absorbed by the sea, exacerbating the effects of climate change. This is known as the ice-albedo feedback. Surface ...

Earth's air conditioner is on the blink, and a University of Miami researcher, using a "toolbox" of state-of-the-art ...

Additionally, sea ice reflects some of the sun's energy back into space, a process known as the albedo effect. When the ice melts, darker ocean water is exposed, which absorbs more of the sun's heat.

The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters ... “Implications are serious: the increased open water lowers the average albedo [reflectivity] of the planet, accelerating global warming ...

The albedo of the surface of the Earth has been in decline since the 1970s—due in part to the decline in Arctic snow and sea ice, which also means fewer white areas to reflect back sunlight.