Newsletter Photo by Cassie Matias on Unsplash Climate change: Southern Ocean’s shrunken sea ice has entered ‘new state’ Warming waters have pushed Antarctica’s shrunken sea ice into a “new state”, scientists report, following a freakish season that left the Southern Ocean missing more than a million square kilometres of its normal cover.
Impacts Image by Siggy Nowak from Pixabay What is a 5-sigma event? Why the sea ice in Antarctica is alarming scientists During the winter, sea ice usually grows around Antarctica, but warming temperatures mean that ice isn't forming as much this year.
Newsletter Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash Ship traffic threatening Antarctica's pristine marine ecosystem, says study Ship movements related to fishing, tourism, research, and supply expose the Antarctic continent to human impacts.
