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Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year on March 21, scientists reported Wednesday, but it did not make up for much of the ground it lost during the past several unusually mild summer melt seasons
The sea ice cover surrounding the North Pole, which expands and thickens during the northern winter and shrinks and gets thinner during the spring and summer, was only able to grow to the fifth-lowest peak extent on record since satellite data began in 1978, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Sea ice extent is a way of measuring the area covered by sea ice, as estimated using satellite imagery. Read more...
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