‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
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Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
A small boat glides around patches of sea ice in the water off Deception Island in Antarctica. Sea ice in the region grows from a minimum in summer to a maximum in winter, but in the last several years, the sea ice extent has been shrinking in summer. (Image credit: karenfoleyphotography / Alamy Stock Photo)