Global sea ice diminishing, despite Antarctic gains
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 10 February, 2015
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Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new study finds. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year....