Antarctic Sea Ice Melt 2021

Large chunks of sea ice break away from the coast of Antarctica. This Overview was captured on April 22, 2021. In the 1980s, Antarctica lost 40 billion tons (36.3 billion metric tons) of ice each year. In the last decade, that figure was estimated at a staggering 252 billion tons (229 billion metric tons) per year.

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