The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming.
The ice surrounding Earth s southernmost continent now measures less than 6.5 million square miles (17 million sq km), according to the US s National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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