2018 Arctic Summertime Sea Ice Minimum Extent Tied for Sixth Lowest on Record (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

The yearly minimum Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing at a rapid pace since the late 1970s due to warming temperatures. The twelve lowest extents in the satellite era have all occurred in the last twelve years.

Credit

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder

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