Sea ice can linger on Hudson Bay into the summer, but it is usually gone by mid-August.
Published Jul 30, 2018Image of the Day Water Unique Imagery Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Ice in Hudson Bay starts melting each April, and melts away completely each July. Images from early April and early June 2012 document the ice retreat.
Published Jun 17, 2012
Two ice caps north of St. Patrick Bay on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, retreated to just a fraction of their original size.
Published Mar 24, 2016
The timing of ice breakup on Hudson Bay occurs earlier now than it did decades ago.
Published Jul 6, 2014
Taken near the northernmost extent of the space station’s orbit, this photograph shows ice growth in the midst of freezing season near James Bay.
Published Jan 31, 2019
When the ice on Hudson Bay breaks up and melts away, polar bears head to shore for a few months. This year they stayed out a little longer.
Published Jul 28, 2017
Sea ice in an East Antarctic bay broke up, providing access to Cape Denison for the first time in six years.
Published Mar 4, 2016
A combination of winds and thawing ice created an ice shove on Dauphin Lake that damaged numerous homes.
Published May 15, 2013
People and satellites keep an eye on when ice on the world’s deepest lake melts each year.
Published May 10, 2012
Polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt seals, their preferred prey.
Published Aug 10, 2020
A cool spring left several lakes in northern Minnesota covered in ice, weeks beyond the norm.
Published May 17, 2013
Hunters in the Belcher Islands keep a close eye on changing sea ice.
Published Jun 6, 2017
While most scientific and public attention goes to glaciers, lake and river ice have interesting stories to tell as well.
Published Jul 5, 2017
Acquired in 2003, 2004,and 2005, these images show an intermittently ice-filled bay in the wake of the 2002 collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Published Apr 9, 2010
Summer beachgoers and fishers have been getting a wintery surprise on Lake Superior.
Published Jun 12, 2014
Acquired October 7, 2011, this natural-color image shows an ice menagerie off the coast of East Antarctica.
Published Oct 23, 2011
The puzzling features are most easily seen from above, but they pose real risks at the surface.
Published Jan 30, 2020
Nearly 90 percent of the lake was ice-covered on January 9, 2014.
Published Jan 15, 2014
This approximately true-color image shows ice fragments left over from previous breakups of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Published Apr 19, 2009
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured the movement in this pair of photo-like images of sea ice in the Ross Sea, taken on December 12 and December 13, 2007, within the span of nine hours. The ice was shifting, bunching and drifting northward so quickly that even in the short space of time that elapsed between the two images, noticeable differences developed.
Published Dec 15, 2007
