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Winter Sea Ice Loss May Be Underestimated, Ancient Clues From a Warmer Arctic Suggest

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Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) more than previously thought, after researchers used clues from a warm period 6,000 years ago to improve the reliability of climate models.

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The findings, published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, could have implications for future winter conditions in the United Kingdom…More...

Underestimated ice loss: In the coming decades, the Arctic could carry almost a million square kilometres less sea ice in winter than previous climate models expected. Fossil algae traces from a warm phase of around 6,000 years ago point to this. Their comparison with 27 climate models provides more precise limited projections for the winter ice cover. Cambridge (England). While the Arctic sea ice in [...] Der Beitrag Was the winter ice loss of …

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Phys.org broke the news in Douglas, United Kingdom on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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