Global sea ice is at lowest level ever recorded
By Michael Le Page
It’s a new low point. The area of the world’s oceans covered by floating sea ice is the smallest recorded since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s. That means it is also probably the lowest it has been for thousands of years.
The latest observations from the US National Snow & Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, show how the ice extent has fallen to a new low this year (bright red trace in the graph below).
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118093-global-sea-ice-is-at-lowest-level-ever-recorded/
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