Arctic sea ice has reached its minimum extent for 2022, tied with 2017 and 2018 as the 10th lowest on record, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC). The ...

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The Arctic summer sea ice minimum also stayed low this year, at 4.28 million km² (1.65 million mi²), making it the 7th lowest minimum in the satellite record. So far, 2012 saw the record minimum ...

when it reaches its annual minimum.” The shrinking level of sea ice can have serious consequences locally and globally. Communities in the Arctic, for instance, face more erosion from waves.

Sea-ice coverage in the Arctic shrinks in spring and summer and reaches a minimum in mid-September. This year, it’s on track to be the sixth lowest on record. The record was set in 2012 ...

Arctic sea ice is ice floating in the Arctic Ocean north ... shrinking in the warmer summer months to reach a minimum in September around 50 percent the size of the winter extent, before growing ...

This transformation is already well underway. The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that September 2023’s sea ice minimum – 4.28 million square kilometers – was one of the lowest ...

That number represents less than 20% of the region's minimum ice cover in the ... As a result, ice melt and warming in the Arctic gets worse. The loss of sea ice can disrupt the Arctic ecosystem ...

The Arctic now exists within a “new regime,” where signals such as sea ice loss and ocean temperatures ... a precursor to a potential new all-time minimum this summer, because the starting ...

By midcentury — 2035 to 2067 — the Arctic could see consistent ice-free conditions in September, the month when sea ice concentrations are typically at their minimum, the study found.