Antarctic Ice Continues to Melt

Antarctica surrounds the south pole.  If all that ice melted, sea level would rise roughly 200 feet.  Here’s a tweet from Zack Labe, @ZLabe.

The unprecedented loss of #Antarctic sea ice continues… [Observations over the satellite record. Preliminary data using the 5-day trailing mean; explore more at nsidc.org/arcticseaicene]

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