Has Antarctic sea ice hit a breaking point?

After decades of watching Arctic sea ice extent drop as climate warms, scientists have yet to see Antarctic sea ice set a definitive trend.

2024 Antarctic sea ice maximum extent finishes at second lowest

It is 1.55 million square kilometers below (598,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average Antarctic maximum extent. Sea ice extent is ...

Has Antarctic Sea Ice Hit a Breaking Point? | Southern Winds

It is during the months spanning between June and September that the Antarctic sea ice, unshackled by land's constraints, stretches its frozen ...

Has Antarctica Reached Point Of No Return?

NASA estimates show the Antarctic ice sheet has enough ice to raise the global mean sea level by up to 58 meters. Studies have shown that about ...

Antarctic sea ice maximum in 2024 is 'second lowest' on record

The Antarctic has seen a record-breaking year. In September 2023, Antarctic sea ice reached a new all-time low maximum extent, sparking ...

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), ...

Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet 'tipping point,' warning ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way not taken into account by current models of future sea level rise, according to a ...

Antarctic Sea Ice at Near-Historic Lows - NASA Earth Observatory

Over the last seven years, we've had three record lows.” It's too soon to know whether recent sea ice lows at the South Pole point to a long- ...

Antarctica just hit a record low in sea ice — by a lot - Washington Post

Declining trends in Antarctic sea ice have been more unclear, but scientists now think the continent is hitting a turning point much like the ...

'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never ...

Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.

The melting point - Stanford Report

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than 10 feet, and it may be less stable than ...

Antarctic sea ice in crisis

Antarctic sea ice is in crisis, with a sudden decline recently observed after more than 30 years of relative stability.

Sea Ice loss in Antarctica: Sign of a tipping point? - Sterna Paradisaea

In Antarctica, there has been a sudden, violent and in many ways unexplained lack of sea ice, which normally melts in the summer and re-forms in ...

Antarctic winter sea ice hits 'extreme' record low - NBC News

The summer Antarctic sea ice extent also hit a record low in February, breaking the previous mark set in 2022. The Arctic has been hit hard ...

Antarctic sea ice 'behaving strangely' as Arctic reaches 'below ...

Antarctic sea ice is “behaving strangely” and might have entered a “new regime”, says director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre.

Melting of Antarctica Sea Ice Endangers Planet, Lives Worldwide ...

New figures show that this September, Antarctic Sea ice was 1.5 million square kilometres smaller than the average for the time of year — an ...

Antarctic sea ice hit record lows again. Scientists wonder if it's 'the ...

Sea ice in Antarctica hit a record low this year and is “on a very steep downward trend,” a sign this complex and isolated region may ...

Antarctica's melting ice is reaching a "tipping point" due to climate ...

As it turns out, scientists have misunderstood a key aspect of the physical process behind the Antarctic ice sheet's ongoing melting, and ...

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts - BBC

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once ...

Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Record Low Maximum Extent By 'Wide Margin ...

Antarctica Is Headed for a Climate Tipping Point ... A study published in September 2022 found that exceeding 1.5C of global warming could trigger ...