Map of showing that Antarctica’s sea snow refers to a historical minimum: “None of the pioneers”

South Pole or Anomartic This is one of the sites that can be felt with greater accuracy. It does not stop giving signs of anxiety. The Antarctic sea surrounding the South Pole has been spread this week that the ice has been reduced Almost the record minimum.

On February 25, the Antarctic Sea reached the minimum extension of the year, which includes 1.87 million square kilometers, According to new data collected by the EU Copenicus Laboratory.

This data records the seventh lower minimum level built by 2024, and eight percent is less than the average of a long period of time 1993 Y 2010.

New maps and data released by sea service Carnicus The EU is based on visible images of radiation data and satellites, which are constantly measuring the extension of the sea snow.

As the maps show, there is a loss of snow throughout the Antarctica, but there are some regional differences, they are described “Dear melting.”

For example, on the beach of the Bellingshouzen Sea, the sea snow in the Vedels Sea, Wilkas land and Amary land It resists a large melting.

Claire Yung, the Earth Science Researcher of the National University of Australia Daily mail It “across Antarctica, this year’s ocean snow layer, which is a reminder of severe changes and Unprecedented It happens in the weather of the earth around us. “

Expansion of Antarctica’s seawater refers to the total area covered with snow around the Antarctica coast, and There is no snow that includes earthly mass.

Due to the cold temperature (from July to September) the winter of the southern hemisphere reaches its largest extension. But Temperature will gradually increase The sea snow is melting, and finally reaches the minimum extension in the summer of the southern hemisphere (December to February).

Climate scientists continue to monitor The extension of the sea snow Throughout the stations and their size is compared to the same months of the previous years, see how it changes.

Although there is a huge variation in the expansion of the snow according to the time of the year, it has been less than average since the launch of records, Regardless of the station.

Since 2017, the Antarctic Sea snow has reached the least historical minimum, which illustrates a “The tendency to worry about climate change”, Has been confirmed in a statement Project Coppernicus.

According to the EU pro -company, the size of the seawater (another metric to measure the snow) was almost a record in the summer of summer Southern hemisphere.

On March 5, 2025, the size of the Antarctic Sea snow reached its minimum, Only 1,030 km falls. What is worrying is that the long -term average is 2,390 km 3.

Since the Antarctic and the Arctic Sea snow is the most important Its whitening reflects the sunlightThis helps keep the polar parts fresh, which is called high ‘albido’.

Without this layer of ice, the dark parts of the sea are sucking instead of reflecting sunlight Heats the area and still accelerates the loss of snow.