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A new Arctic sea ice record?
Measurements taken from NASA’s Aqua satellite have shown that the area covered be sea ice in the Arctic Ocean this year came narrowly close to the record low set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The animation below shows how sea ice cover has changed since early March until [...]
Read moreArctic sea ice at record January low
Analysis from the National Snow and Ice Data Center has shown that Arctic sea ice averaged over January 2011 covered 13.55 million km² – the lowest January ice extent recorded since satellite records began in 1979. This figure lies 1.27 million km² below the long term average between 1979-2000, adding to the linear rate of [...]
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