Sea ice grows from the bottom up. The thicker it gets, the more it insulates the water underneath, slowing its own growth. That is one reason Arctic ice has thinned so steadily across the decades.
Last winter, a team at Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic drilled holes in the ice and pumped seawater onto the surface. Each thin layer froze solid by morning.
By spring, those patches stood nearly a foot (30 centimeters) thicker than the untouched ice alongside them.
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