Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.
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While the world has watched the extent of the Arctic Ocean’s icy cap shrink in recent years, the ice has also been attacked from beneath, making the ice cover thinner, weaker and more vulnerable. […]
The melting of sea ice in the Arctic is well on its way toward its annual “minimum,” that time when the floating ice cap covers less of the Arctic Ocean than at any other period during the year. […]
