For the second year running, Arctic sea ice has peaked at its lowest winter extent since satellites started keeping watch in 1979.
The ice didn’t spread as far as it should have, held back by unusually warm temperatures in two key regions. At some point, back-to-back records stop feeling like anomalies.
The data comes from Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and…
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