Antarctic sea ice shrinks to record low surface for winter
30 September 2023 |
7:12 am
On September 10, Antarctic sea ice was spread over 6.55 million square miles—an annual maximum that's 676,000 square miles below the average from 1981 to 2010 and 398,000 square miles below the previous record low from 1986. The records date back to 1979.
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