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Analysis - Sea Ice Today
After a period of slow ice loss in the middle of June, Arctic sea ice loss ramped up, and extent at the end of the month fell below 2012, the year which ended up with the lowest September ice extent in the satellite record.
Analysis - Ice Sheets Today
Between June 11 and 20, an extensive area of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface melted. At its peak on June 12, thawing climbed from the western and eastern coasts to elevations above 3,000 meters (9,800 feet).
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Tasha Snow joined a two-month scientific expedition to one of the most unstable glaciers in the world: Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. She describes her experience here.
Analysis - Ice Sheets Today
Surface melting on the Northern Hemisphere’s largest mass of ice began during the second week of April, with several significant melting episodes at the end of the month and into early May.
Analysis - Sea Ice Today
May saw above average temperatures over nearly all of the Arctic Ocean, Baffin Bay, and Greenland. Early sea ice retreat in the Bering Sea extended into the southern Chukchi Sea. Northern Baffin Bay and the Nares Strait have low ice cover.