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September 2018 also ties with September 2008 for the sixth lowest September in the satellite record.
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Greenland Today
Daily surface melt images from NASA data, and scientific analysis.News
27 September 2018
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its 2018 annual minimum, dropping to 4.59 million square kilometers on September 19 and 23. Tied with 2008 and 2010, it is the sixth-lowest minimum in the nearly 40-year satellite record.
25 June 2018
Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly -100 degrees Celsius (-148 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter.
13 June 2018
NSIDC senior research scientist Ted Scambos co-authors the Nature paper, which breaks new ground in implicating sea ice change in sea level rise.
30 April 2018
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are joining forces to investigate Thwaties Glacier—a massive, rapidly changing glacier in Antarctica.
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24 October 2018
From the Arctic to the Antarctic (and the Andes in between): a latitudinal study of light absorbing impurities in snow in 2018
