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A location of missing out on Antarctic sea ice two times the size of Texas contributes to issues that the ice has actually seen a long lasting “routine shift”, with effects for environments and worldwide ocean blood circulation
By James Dinneen
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Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica
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For the 2nd year in a row, Antarctic sea ice has actually reached near-record low levels. This strengthens issues that human-caused environment modification has actually started an enduring “program shift” in the quantity of ice that forms in the Southern Ocean each year.
“Last year we were discussing whether Antarctic sea ice is going through a program shift. Not any longer,” states Edward Doddridge at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Australia. “Antarctica has actually quite definitively responded to that concern for us. Now we are speaking about what the effects of that …
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