NASA's new research has revealed that increasing Antarctica's sea ice cannot cover up for Arctic's declining sea ice. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year. Claire Parkinson, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, said that even though ...
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