US EditionAntarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice – and scientists are scrambling to figure out why
- Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for this time of year, with it currently being 1.6 million square kilometers below the previous winter record low.
- Scientists are struggling to understand why this unprecedented low ice level is occurring and are considering climate change as a major driver for the disappearing ice.
- The decline in Antarctic sea ice could have cascading effects, such as exposing coastal ice sheets and glaciers to melting and impacting wildlife that rely on sea ice for feeding and resting.
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A gigantic amount of ice equivalent to the size of Argentina broke off in recent days in Antarctica. The fact is that, following a new record of high temperatures in almost the entire planet, the white continent was unable to recover the mass of ice it loses every summer, and now it remains at the lowest levels for this time of year, since records have been available. While the Northern Hemisphere is suffocating in an unprecedented heat wave, fa…
There are 2.6 million icy square kilometers in the sea that were not recovered in the winter after the summer melts. They warn that they could never recover.
Antarctica is missing an abundance of sea ice the size of Argentina this year, and scientists have no idea why this is happening. By mid-July, sea ice on the southernmost continent lagged 2.6 million square kilometres below the average from 1981 to 2010, another terrifying climate record. CNN reported on it.
Antarctic sea ice, which normally decreases to its lowest levels by the end of February and is rebuilt during the winter, has not returned to the levels expected this year
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