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

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”, with consequences for ecosystems and global ocean circulation ...

Antarctica’s rapidly shrinking sea ice could have a significant impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed far from the ...

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 ...

Studies have shown that about a third of the world's population lives below 100 vertical meters of sea level. While it's tough to determine whether we've hit a "point ... who specialises in Antarctic ...

‘Throughout the 2023 austral winter, sea ice was far below any previous winter extent in the 45-year satellite record.” (Source: Has Antarctic Sea Ice Hit a ... to wit: “Low sea ice extent ...

Calculated over land and land ice, this makes it the second warmest July in Antarctica since records began in 1979 ... and part of the eastern Weddell Sea offshore. Daily temperature anomalies ...

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 ...

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'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.

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 ...