Tag: ice melting

According to a new research, based largely on information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA’s CryoSat satellite missions, has revealed alarming findings about the state of Antarctica's ice shelves.

According to new satellite data released by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.23 million square kilometers (1.63 million square miles).

According to The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), two colossal icebergs named A81 and A76 are on the move and will have a significant impact on the ocean ecosystems that support the diverse marine wildlife found in the Antarctic region. 

According to a new study, there is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time since satellite measurements began four decades ago. Only 2.2 million square kilometers of the Southern Ocean were covered by ice in early February 2023.

Until now, satellites could only measure sea ice thickness between October and March, when the ice and snow are cold and dry. In the warmer months, melt ponds on top of the ice floes confused the instruments, which could not be used to distinguish between melted ice on an ice floe and the ocean. However, thanks to a new study involving UCL researchers, an algorithm was trained on thousands of simulations of satellite data to reliably distinguish between melt ponds and the ocean.

2021 was the 7th warmest year on record for the Arctic, according to latest data provided by NOAA, with an accelerating shrinking sea ice enabling shipping and other commercial and industrial activities to push deeper into the Arctic.

Arctic sea ice extent was at extremely low levels for much of the summer of 2020, setting new records every day during the month of July, at a time when current data reveals the year 2020 will be the warmest year on record.

With summer melt season at its peak, the largest Arctic ice shelf has been broken to a piece of ice twice the size of Manhattan.

In the winters of 2018 and 2019, the Bering Sea sea ice cover hit record low not seen in thousands of years, a new study revealed on Wednesday, in line with global concerns about the accelerating impact of climate change in the Arctic.

A recent Reuters analysis of new shipping and fuel-consumption data revealed that melting sea ice enables ships sailing into the Arctic, resulting to increasing amounts of climate-warming pollution.