In Antarctica, sea ice typically hits its minimum coverage at the end ... At that time, the annual ice coverage was at a record low of 6.55 million square miles — a whopping 398,000 square ...

An area of missing Antarctic sea ice twice the size of Texas adds to concerns that the ice has seen a lasting “regime shift”, ...

For the second winter in a row, the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average—and it has just set a ...

At its largest expanse this year, sea ice ... of the Antarctic — an area that is 1 million square kilometers (almost 400,000 square miles) smaller than the previous record low set in ...

Sea-ice levels in Antarctica reached a record low in mid-September, satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows. Sea ice, the water that freezes on the surface of the sea in ...

A Dartmouth-led study by more than 50 climate scientists worldwide provides the clearest projection that Antarctica's ice sheet will retreat rapidly after 2100 under current carbon emissions, with ...

The planet saw record-high surface temperatures, ocean heat content and greenhouse gas concentrations — and record-low Antarctic ... that Antarctic sea ice had hit record lows; and that the ...

Antarctica's sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the record low of 2023.

Antarctic sea ... record lows in 2024. In February this year, the ice covered just 768,000 square miles, which is 30 per cent less than the average from 1981 to 2010. This was the second-lowest ...

Antarctica is changing, faster than expected. Extreme weather events in the ice-covered continent ... meters of sea level. While it's tough to determine whether we've hit a "point of no return ...