A new look at the Arctic sea ice record reveals that the current ice cover is younger and thinner than at any time in the last 60 years. About 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now seasonal, forming and melting within one single year. This thinner, younger ice is more susceptible to breakup and warmer temperatures. The record combines data from satellites and declassified submarine sonar measurements and stretches back to 1958. Since that time, Arctic sea ice cover has lost about two-thirds of its
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A new look at the Arctic sea ice record reveals that the current ice cover is younger and thinner than at any time in the last 60 years. About 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now seasonal, forming and melting within one single year. This thinner, younger ice is more susceptible to breakup and warmer temperatures. The record combines data from satellites and declassified submarine sonar measurements and stretches back to 1958. Since that time, Arctic sea ice cover has lost about two-thirds of its
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 2025
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Two Graphs: 1984 - 2016
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Weekly Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age By Area: 1984 - 2019
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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find - NASA Science
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find - NASA Science
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The sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean last week reached its smallest extent in nearly 40 years of satellite measurements. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/arctic-sea-ice-annual-minimum-ties-second-lowest-on-record | NASA Earth
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The sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean last week reached its smallest extent in nearly 40 years of satellite measurements. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/arctic-sea-ice-annual-minimum-ties-second-lowest-on-record | NASA Earth
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Peak Arctic sea ice for the winter of 2021 tied for the seventh-lowest on record. NASA Earth data shows that the Arctic region is warming more than three times as fast as the globe over the last 30 years: https://go.nasa.gov/31xmrCW | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Peak Arctic sea ice for the winter of 2021 tied for the seventh-lowest on record. NASA Earth data shows that the Arctic region is warming more than three times as fast as the globe over the last 30 years: https://go.nasa.gov/31xmrCW | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Sea ice update 🌊🧊 Global sea ice hit a record low this winter, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center report. This year was the lowest Arctic sea ice maximum and the second-lowest Antarctic sea ice minimum. Sea ice forms and spreads across Arctic seas every winter. But in recent years, less new ice has been forming, and less multi-year ice has accumulated. Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it’s ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, continuing a downward trend
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NASA satellites see Arctic surface darkening faster - NASA Science
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Arctic sea ice this year tied for the 10th lowest on record, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center report. Sea ice—or frozen seawater—forms and melts directly in the ocean and is different from icebergs or glaciers, which come from land-based ice. Every year around September, Arctic sea ice reaches its minimum extent. This year, sea ice reached its yearly minimum extent of 1.78 million square miles on Sept. 10, tying with 2008 as the 10th-lowest on record. Learn more: https://go.nasa.go
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Sea ice extent sinks to record lows at both poles - NASA Science
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Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles - NASA
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Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum - NASA
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Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low Growth - NASA
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Arctic sea ice appears to have hit its annual minimum extent on Sept. 16, at 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). This year's extent is the 12th lowest in the satellite record, according to scientists at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Snow and Ice Data Center: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3114/nasa-finds-2021-arctic-summer-sea-ice-12th-lowest-on-record/ 🎥: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio | NASA Climate Change
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Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record   - NASA Science
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Daily Antarctic Sea Ice, By Year
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NASA, NSIDC Scientists Say Arctic Winter Sea Ice at Record Low - NASA
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age by Percent of Total: 1984 - 2016
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ICYMI: Earth’s sea ice reached a new low in 2025. 🌊🧊 Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic grows in the dark and cold of the Northern Hemisphere winter, reaching its annual peak. Arctic sea ice hit its peak on March 22, 2025 at 5.53 million square miles (14.33 million square kilometers), making it the lowest annual peak on record. In the Antarctic, sea ice melts during the Southern Hemisphere summer to its annual minimum extent. This year, Antarctic sea ice retreated to 764,000 square miles
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The data are in: Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.88 million square kilometers (5.75 million square miles), the tenth lowest extent in the satellite record. This continues a long-term downward trend due to human-caused global warming. This wintertime maximum extent is roughly 770,000 square kilometers (297,300 square miles) below the 1981-2010 average, equal to missing an area of ice slightly larger than Texas and Maine combined. This February 25 maximum also
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Four decades of sea ice from space: The decline - NASA Science
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Video: Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2022 with Area Graph - NASA Science
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Five Facts to Help You Understand Sea Ice - NASA
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Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline - NASA
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2025
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Each year, NASA works with the National Snow and Ice Data Center to track sea ice as it fluctuates from its minimum extent at the end of spring to its annual maximum extent at the end of winter. Arctic sea ice has been declining for the last several years, as warmer temperatures inhibit its growth and expedite its melt. On March 13, Arctic sea ice reached this year's maximum extent, which continued that trend. Although it wasn't a record low year, it was in the bottom ten maximums seen in the sa
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