Just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed as of March 22, the smallest maximum extent since satellite recordkeeping ...
The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...
To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...
That's the same amount of ice that was lost over the ... this is the time of year the region hits its minimum — and ended up with the second lowest sea level on record. Arctic sea ice had ...
March is usually the peak season for Arctic sea ice; after months of ceaseless polar darkness, conditions are frigid and much of the ocean is frozen over ... comes at a grim time for ice in ...