Arctic sea ice has reached its lowest ever recorded level following record summer melting, scientists say. full story ![]()
The skin of sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean has reached its maximum extent for 2013 and it is the sixth lowest on record. Worryingly, it is less than the same time last year before summer brought about a new low.
businessspectator.com.au (1 month and 20 days ago)
Last year's record loss of Arctic sea ice is already causing big changes for plants and animals that scientists are just starting to understand, according to newly published research.
cbc.ca (3 months ago)

A sea ice simulator in Canada is growing frost flowers to see how ice forms in the Arctic Ocean.
discovery.com (2 months and 19 days ago)

Research suggests that last year's record loss of Arctic sea ice is already causing big changes that scientists are just starting to understand for plants and animals.German scientists on board a research vessel in the High Arctic last summer found that large clumps of algae that would normally cling to the underside of sea ice were falling and sinking to the ocean...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 2 days ago)
Melting sea ice, exposing huge parts of the ocean to the atmosphere, explains extreme weather both hot and coldClimate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.Both the extent and the volume of the sea ice that forms and melts...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 22 days ago)

The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now nearing its winter maximum, but a February storm tore through relatively weak, thin, year-old pack ice.
discovery.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

* Melted ice re-freezes faster than sea water in winter-study * Antarctica's expanding ice at odds with melting Arctic By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, March 31 (Reuters) - Global warming is expanding the extent of sea ice around Antarctica in winter in a paradoxical shift caused by cold plumes of summer melt water that re-freeze fast when temperatures drop,...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 15 days ago)

From Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor: Over the past 30 years, the Arctic has warmed more than any other place on the planet, and that warming and the resulting melt of the region's sea ice presents a number of potential adverse effects, from impacts on weather systems to the decline in the habitats of native species. Now, a team of scientists have found...
huffingtonpost.com (23 days ago)
(Photo: International Business Times) Arctic sea ice no longer inhibits commercial maritime shipping.
ibtimes.com (3 months and 2 days ago)

Massive snow storms in the northern hemisphere are linked to shrinking Arctic sea ice levels, scientists say.
abc.net.au (1 month and 22 days ago)
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