Tag: drift ice

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 18:32 UTC

  Sea ice in the Weddell Sea has decreased by one million sq kilometers in five years

  

  Scientists have discovered that summer sea ice (*) in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometres – an area twice the size of Spain – in the last five years, with implications for the marine ecosystem. The findings are published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.