The claim: Antarctic sea ice area maps show climate change is a hoax. A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from ...

From 2002 to 2017, for example, due to global warming, ice sheet losses accounted for roughly a third of mean sea level rise. The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...

Newsweek reached out to British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the group that published the map, by email for comment.. Why It Matters. Antarctica sea ice has been disappearing over the last several ...

The Antarctic has long been a nightmare to study for scientists, who must endure frigid temperatures, howling winds and sea ice so thick that few dare venture there in the dead of winter. But ...

Antarctic sea ice drops to a near-record LOW: Shocking maps reveal how the South Pole is missing thousands of miles of ice - and scientists say global warming is to blame ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

Antarctic scientists have made big gains in our knowledge of Antarctic sea ice thanks to an autonomous underwater vehicle that produced high-resolution 3D maps beneath previously-inaccessible ice ...

Researchers are using these torpedo-shaped drones to map sea ice algae in the Antarctic. (Image credit: Lars Chresten, Lund Hansen) The diving drones are 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long and are shaped ...

While sea ice depletion in the northern hemisphere has been a worrying marker of human impacts on the planet for decades (the lowest level of ice measured in the Arctic was in 2012), in Antarctica ...

To the south, Antarctic sea ice actually become slightly more extensive, about 1-2% per decade, from the 1970s into the early 2010s, a development that’s not yet fully understood. A majority of ...

Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and ...