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A newly published study has mapped glacial debris across the Greater Caucasus, the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas. The study found an increasing trend in glacial debris between 2014 and 2020. The authors relied on GLIMS data at NSIDC in their research.
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Analysis - Sea Ice Today
As darkness extends southward across the Arctic, sea ice has advanced to much of the Russian shoreline, but growth has been particularly slow in the Barents and Kara Seas. In the Antarctic, with the onset of spring, the pace of seasonal sea ice loss has increased.
This NASA Blue Marble image shows Antarctic sea ice on September 19, 2024, when sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year. Sea ice extent for September 19 averaged 17.16 million square kilometers (6.63 million square miles), the second lowest in the satellite record.
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Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 17.16 million square kilometers (6.63 million square miles) on September 19, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). The 2024 maximum is the second lowest in the 46-year satellite record.