Map of Arctic Ocean sea ice at 2024 summer minimum extent ... The year 2025 is shown with a dark blue line, 2024 with a medium blue line and 2023 with a light blue line. Data source: EUMETSAT ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

The Arctic had previously set a record low for minimum (summer) ice just last ... blue line and 2023 with a light blue line. Data source: EUMETSAT OSI SAF Sea Ice Index v2.2. (C3S/ECMWF/EUMETSAT ...